Sentences with phrase «over desegregation»

saying the policy had been in place for 30 years, dating back to a time when school districts across Mississippi came under close scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over desegregation.

Although overshadowed by more spectacular conflicts over desegregation, community control, and open schooling, the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s generated more than 70 state laws seeking to create educational accountability and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books about how to create more efficient and accountable educational systems.

A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over desegregation efforts in the San Diego schools.

Louisville, Ky — Threats of a new legal battle over desegregation have erupted here as a result of Superintendent of Schools Donald W. Ingwerson's recently proposed revisions in the busing plan that Jefferson County schools have used since 1975.

Same arguments were made over desegregation AND letting women serve.

Not exact matches

Football was a backdrop for the desegregation battles of the 1960s, from the fight over James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss in 1962 to the integration of Alabama's football team (and Arkansas», and Texas») a few years later.

The argument plays to Alabama's primal fear of federal control, a fear born of years of resentment over U.S. courts» ordering the desegregation of schools and the creation of black - majority legislative districts.

The DOE's proposal is intended to ease overcrowding one school, but the proposal has sparked debate over race, school equity, school quality, and school desegregation and integration.

Desegregation programs in some cities prompted «white flight,» although over the long run it appears to have had only a small effect on housing patterns in most communities.

How did the school's magazine cover desegregation over the years?

In the wake of Boston's painful desegregation process in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled over.

A Union County, N.J., judge has ruled that the Hillside Board of Education must turn over to the state data on its racially imbalanced elementary schools so that a desegregation plan can be implemented by the beginning of next school year.

A decade later, the Ed School again tackled desegregation, this time with a case study of Boston, which had, since June 1974, become a public and legal battleground over busing.

The courts are now dominated by anti-civil rights majorities that were appointed over the last several administrations, and they are dismantling desegregation.

The Department of Justice is suing Louisiana over its voucher program, claiming it slows the desegregation process.

Although some have argued that a renewed emphasis on desegregation could help narrow the gap, a new EdNext analysis shows that over this same time period, schools have continued to become more, not less, diverse.

A reissued decision in the Topeka, Kan., school - desegregation suit gives a more detailed picture of a federal appellate panel's deep division over the need for continued court supervision in the historic case.

Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfare Fund.

After BAEO and NAPCS released their signed letter from over 160 Black educational leaders, I had the chance to hop on the phone with a few of the signees — Cheryl Henderson Brown, founding president and CEO of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and daughter of plaintiff Oliver Brown of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case, Sekou Biddle, UNCF's vice president of advocacy, and Steve Perry, founder and head of schools of Capital Preparatory Schools.

Here, Moses Crow watches Virginia and the United States government fight over school desegregation with the former represented by the CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimac) and the latter as the ironclad USS Monitor, the famous vessels that fought to a draw on March 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads.

Yet school desegregation is an issue that has been virtually absent from education reform debates and policies enacted over the past 13 years.

Over the past three years, the district has enrolled 2,200 students into a new early - childhood program financed partly through the release of funds formerly set aside for desegregation efforts, bringing up the number of enrolled students.

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

The committee stalled desegregation efforts by giving local school districts control over student assignments at particular schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public schools.

They focus on three of the movement's major events: the murder and trial of Emmett Till, voter discrimination in the South, and the struggle over school desegregation in Boston.

Despite operating with a drastically smaller operating budget than they had planned for, Tangi Academy has met every desegregation requirement and has achieved a balanced at - risk and special education student population — an accomplishment that TPSB has struggled to achieve in many of its own schools for over the last half century.

«Rather than roll back the gains made by desegregation over the last generation, or settle for that achievement, we should expand the commitment to go further, to do more.»

Over the past generation, federal courts have stopped monitoring desegregation plans that school districts had implemented because of earlier court orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville.

In the first phase, I use observations of public meetings, interviews with community stakeholders, and analysis of local media coverage to examine the shifting understandings, assumptions, and norms underlying debates over school desegregation in rapidly gentrifying areas of New York City.

In 1974, the Supreme Court struck down the desegregation order — a landmark ruling that relieved suburban districts of their burden to help ease racial disparities in the city and set the stage for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmire.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

It will be important to follow the progress in Sacramento over the next couple of decades to see how the schools fare academically and socially to see if the neighborhood effects of desegregation can carry over to the schools.

For over 40 years both school districts have operated under dormant desegregation orders.