Sentences with phrase «private segregation academies»

By the end of the 1960s, more than 200 private segregation academies had opened in the South, relying on vouchers to cover significant percentages of student tuition, as well as other state resources to operate.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

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Thus in many southern cities private academies, established to circumvent the Supreme Court's decision ordering the end of school segregation, have been founded by churches.

In the South, there were once private «segregation academies» for white students to avoid integrated schools.

Even after vouchers supporting «segregation academies» were deemed unconstitutional, research showed that increases in private school enrollment were accompanied by decreased support for investments in public education.

While we're at it, maybe we should close any private schools, whatever their racial composition today, that were initially established as segregation academies when public schools began to integrate.

charter schools are just stealth private schools based on what a cabal of parents want for their kids — and they EVOLVE to be that segregation academy in a subtle and subversive way.