Sentences with phrase «old desegregation»

Most recently, he was a key part of the trial team that, on behalf of the Chicago Board of Education, vacated a 29 - year - old desegregation consent decree.

The Advocate: Federal judge is dismissing 47 - year - old desegregation lawsuit against St. Landry school system http://bit.ly/2bVz5A9

It's worth noting that under the state's new Local Control Funding Formula, funding entitlements related to the old desegregation aid programs is continued in perpetuity for districts that have historically received the funds.

The U.S. Department of Justice tried to use a 40 year old desegregation case to undermine a program that's designed to empower low - income families with children trapped in failing schools a pathway to a higher quality education.»

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

A 43 - year - old desegregation case involving the Hillsborough County, Fla., school system came to an end last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that the district was no longer segregated.

Concluding that the Charlotte - Mecklenburg district has fulfilled the purpose of its 30 - year - old desegregation order and eliminated all vestiges of a dual system of segregated schools, a federal judge has declared the North Carolina district unitary.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

Not exact matches

Questioning and tossing out old, obsolete ideas is what led to desegregation, women's right to vote, gay marriage (albeit as slow as molasses), and even many simple everyday things.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

In the same way that the old segregationist laws of the South forced blacks to the «back of the bus,» the California law amounts to «relegating minorities to the back of the courthouse under the subtle laws of the «New North,»» argued Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional scholar representing the minority - group plaintiffs in the Los Angeles school - desegregation case.

A federal judge overseeing a 26 - year - old school desegregation case in Chicago has indicated that as long as some details are added, he is inclined to approve a proposed final settlement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice that could end court supervision of the district by July of next year.

Quoting Ecclesiastes that «better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,» Judge Elliott, 84 years old at the time, expressed his hope to end court - ordered desegregation in the district before he died.

Ruling in a 25 - year - old school - desegregation case, the judge rejected the state's argument that the district could pay for the court mandates through cost - saving measures, including cutting...

But like an old, out - of - date suit collecting dust in the back of the closet, desegregation cases affecting hundreds of districts haven't been concluded.

The 12 - year - old program provides the federal government's only direct funding for school desegregation.

Raleigh's decades - old «economic desegregation» system, which Grant describes glowingly, is now in danger of being dismantled.

They then discuss how the desegregation lawsuits in the 1960s, demographic shifts starting in the 1950s, California's Proposition 13 property tax reduction measure, and the legalization of teacher unionization in 1975 delegitimized and hollowed out the old institution.