Sentences with phrase «plans for the desegregation»

This federal program was established in the 1960s to assist local education agencies in creating and implementing plans for the desegregation of public schools.

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But Fariña said she's happy with the plans to rezone District 3 schools and families must participate for desegregation to work.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

Armor said he has helped design desegregation plans for schools but opposes mandatory measures such as the busing that was instituted in Boston in the 1970s.

Paul metropolitan area with enrollments that are less than 10 percent or more than 30 percent minority to adopt plans for bringing about voluntary desegregation.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

In his 5 1/2 years in Topeka, he has overseen the implementation of a court - ordered desegregation plan, the passage of two bond issues, and the creation of a strategic plan for the 14,000 - student district.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

Before coming to the Baldwin, she worked at Brown University for three years as a coordinator for a desegregation assistance center, charged with helping New England school districts comply with desegregation plans.

Miller briefly relates the tale of the $ 2 billion court - ordered desegregation plan in the mid-1980s for Kansas City, in which teachers» salaries were raised, class sizes slashed, and beautiful facilities created.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

Maran offers a five - point plan focused on desegregation, better pay for teachers, and more community and family involvement.

The superintendent of the Seattle public schools has proposed a new desegregation plan for the 44,000 - student district that would halve the number of pupils bused to promote integration.

Denver — The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment policy, is not a desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this two - day lesson plan, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregatPlan: In this two - day lesson plan, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregatplan, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation.

No. 1, supra, at 461; Seattle Public Schools Desegregation Planning Office, Proposed Alternative Desegregation Plans: Options for Eliminating Racial Imbalance by the 1979 - 80 School Year (Sept. 1977)(filed with the Court as Exh.

[15] This minimum percentage is reduced from 35 percent to 25 percent for schools participating in certain desegregation plans.

For the past nine months, Mr. Reville had served as metropolitan supervisor of desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., where he crafted new student - assignment plans for the three districts involved in the caFor the past nine months, Mr. Reville had served as metropolitan supervisor of desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., where he crafted new student - assignment plans for the three districts involved in the cafor the three districts involved in the case.

During the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, the Nixon and Reagan administrations strongly opposed court - ordered busing — then a popular method of district integration — and weakened civil rights policies that would have promoted systemwide desegregation plans.43

In detailing the program's existence, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi found that segregation academies in the state were consistently established in public school districts that had either recently been forced to desegregate by the courts or had recently submitted desegregation plans.48 Appendix B of the court's ruling reveals the percentage of tuition that was covered by the vouchers offered to students at a number of the state's segregation academies.

As Director of Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board of Education.

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Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

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.

These trends began to reverse after a 1991 Supreme Court decision made it easier for school districts and courts to dismantle desegregation plans.

General Anthony Tata (class of 2009), has been embroiled in controversy for dismantling Wake County's desegregation plan.

The court ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan for immediate use» (Justia U.S. Supreme Court).

Local PUSH president Reverend Dr. William H. Howell stated: «If we must march let us march against the Klan mentally in government, industry and business... We need to march for a workable affirmative action plan, and for the full implementation of the desegregation plan in our school.»

«The department's request is fully consistent with the Louisiana law that established the voucher program, which provides that the program is «subject to any court - ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school system in which the public school is located.

Earlier planned litigation strategies (such as campaigns for school desegregation and for the abolition of capital punishment) took place primarily within the court system, employing legal argumentation as the mechanism for social change.