Sentences with phrase «prohibiting school segregation»

Lecker's latest commentary piece is a «must read» for many reasons, but «the most disturbing issue of all is that creating separate schools for «gifted» children violates Connecticut law and policies prohibiting school segregation.»

On the other hand, it is far from clear that the original supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it prohibited school segregation.

Not exact matches

The first is that the equal protection clause was actually intended to prohibit the perpetuation of a caste system, and that school segregation was obviously attempting to perpetuate a racial caste system.

To begin, many legal historians and constitutional scholars seem to agree that the equal protection clause, as originally understood, did not prohibit segregation, because integration — including integrated schools — involved a «social» right, not a civil right, and therefore fell outside the ambit of that clause.

Yet if the equal protection clause does not apply to school segregation, it obviously would not prohibit the voluntary integration of schools, either.

School segregation would be prohibited, but school integration would be tolerated — indeed, encouSchool segregation would be prohibited, but school integration would be tolerated — indeed, encouschool integration would be tolerated — indeed, encouraged.