Sentences with phrase «racial balance»

The attempt to require racial balance in the schools lacked either a mass constituency or a plausible rationale.

However closely related race - based assignments may be to achieving racial balance, that itself can not be the goal, whether labeled «racial diversity» or anything else.

Originally, magnets were a way to improve racial balance voluntarily, but over time these schools became a place for smart educators to try new ideas.

The initial result brought about a better racial balance.

In that case, four justices said that racial balancing alone can never be a compelling state interest.

And then what made possible the equally remarkable success of the magnet schools, which enabled racial balance with little in the way of direct assignment?

A redistricting committee will consider school building use, boundaries for each neighborhood school and other factors that may have to be addressed to create a better racial balance.

If unions do not favor plans to allow administrators to «allocate» teachers to high poverty schools against their will (a policy that is reminiscent of forced student assignment for racial balance during the days of busing), they do favor paying teachers bonuses to attract them to high poverty schools.

The fact that there is little transparency or emphasis on racial balance in schools does not mean demographic factors are unrelated to parents» choice of schools for their children.

Busing of school children to promote racial balance in classrooms removes children from their neighborhood schools and destroys a sense of community.

Like Charlotte, those cities have been certified as officially desegregated and thus no longer subject to court - imposed busing systems to maintain racial balances throughout the school system.

Students were bused all around the district to preserve racial balance in schools.

District court judges took this to mean that desegregation orders must be revised on a regular basis to ensure racial balance.

Ohio adds that a «district may object to the enrollment of a native student in an adjacent or other district in order to maintain an appropriate racial balance.»

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

No one ever satisfactorily explained why racial balance was considered necessary to achieve decent education for black children.

It has had the nation's most venerable and strongest state law prohibiting racially segregated schooling and requiring racial balance in the schools whenever feasible.

Swann to them required as comprehensive a system of busing as was necessary not merely to end segregation but to achieve precise racial balance.

In recent days, Cuomo's top aides have vetted Secretary of State Cesar Perales, who would be the first Latino to hold the post and would bring racial balance to a ticket that, absent the retirement of current Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, is composed of white men.

The recent Supreme Court decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school choice.

Perhaps for this reason, the dissent conflates the concepts of segregation and racial imbalance: If racial imbalance equates to segregation, then it must also be constitutionally acceptable to use racial balancing to remedy racial imbalance.

Students still live in segregated neighborhoods, but elementary schools are successfully integrated, as less than 3 percent of students would have to change schools to achieve a perfect racial balance.

School districts across the region said they do not consider racial balance when drawing school boundary lines.

At the hearing, Benjamin D. Bianco, a lawyer and father of a student at North Street Elementary School (29 percent minority enrollment), in the center of town, said he saw the state's racial balance mandate as open to challenge as violating the equal protection clause of the Constitution, an idea the district has also said it is considering.

It suggests recasting the notion of what «black art» means in a country, a neighborhood, even an art world where racial balances are shifting.

The Bush administration has intervened in the cases on the side of the parents, arguing that the guidelines involve «outright racial balancing» which is «patently unconstitutional.»

«Busing for racial balance» has a negative tone.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

The dust has barely settled on the two school cases decided last week by the Supreme Court — one on student speech and the other on racial balancing — and already their impact is beginning to emerge.

Leaving the desegregation orders in place, he nevertheless acknowledged that the state's data showed that vouchers were promoting racial balance and said he did not want to scuttle the program.

But if (white) parents discover that their children have been denied access to an AP class to ensure racial balancing, they will likely bring suit just like the parents from Seattle in Parents Involved.

By the time I entered first grade in 1978 all of Madison Park's students were being bused to mostly white public schools to achieve racial balance in Montgomery.

Must they nonetheless acquiesce in having their children bused elsewhere in order to achieve racial balance?

The imperatives that civil rights leaders (and many federal judges) read into the decision» forced integration, mass busing, racial balance» were simply, in his view, not there.

Finally, having altered the racial balance enough to attract both black and white families, the manager must evict the newly admitted tenants who have failed to adjust.

The problem of racial balance is even more difficult.

But we achieved a modicum of racial balance.

Racial balance will come, but should not be a factor in choosing a player.

Wouldn't it be better to go to Hamilton, a school with a racial balance, a better reputation for both education and football?

He was also floated as a primary challenger to either state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and also as a LG running mate for Cuomo — both of which he rejected, although his presence on the ticket would have gone a long way toward adding some racial balance and quelling the concerns of black and Latino leaders.

Rumore said the union selected candidates that are experienced and will deliver a racial balance to the board.

Cuomo was nominated by former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, an African - American, in a move that provided some racial balance to the formation of an all - white slate.

In its previous decisions, the court had prohibited the use of race simply for the purpose of racial balancing (15 - 17).

The question becomes: Is the only form of «good casting» to make sure the racial balance of the character matches that of the actor?

The case that went against school administrators — really two cases, one from Seattle and a companion from Jefferson County, Kentucky — involved school districts» classifying and assigning students by race in order to achieve racial balance.