Sentences with phrase «racial balance in»

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

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.

Schools and parents are not actively discussing diversity and racial balance in schools, but there are clearly unspoken factors influencing the wide discrepancies in the percentage of minority students we observe among Hartford - area magnet schools.

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

In 2007 in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the United States Supreme Court invalidated race - conscious plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, finding that explicitly pursuing racial balance in K - 12 schools by using race as a criterion for admission and placement was impermissible under the Constitution's equal protection clause.

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

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

Not exact matches

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

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.

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

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Seven NYC schools are part of a new NYC Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socioeconomic balance in fast - gentrifying neighborhoods.

He could lend racial and geographic balance to the ticket, and has been open in flirting with higher office — including the U.S. Senate in 2009.

It's a flawless balance of serious racial themes and a parodical look at «positive» discrimination as an African - American played by Daniel Kaluuya gets caught up in a cult of white body - snatchers.

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.

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.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

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.»

It required school districts that had previously maintained a «dual» school system to take all steps necessary to convert to a «unitary» school system, one in which no schools are «racially identifiable,» because the enrollment of each school reflects the racial balance of the school district as a whole.

In two 1992 cases, Freeman v. Pitts and U.S. v. Fordice, Scalia addressed the question of how long such efforts at racial balancing must last.

In the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision, the Supreme Court ruled that courts generally could not require busing across district lines to achieve racial balance; but the coming months may see more calls from liberals for moving kids across district lines to fulfill the promise of the federal law.

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.

A local woman — who moved in 1989 to Raleigh with her young children from Lexington, Massachusetts — heads Assignment by Choice, an organization that attacks the pupil assignment policies that keep the Raleigh schools in socioeconomic (and racial) balance.

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?

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

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.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a wholIn each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a wholin assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

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.»

An Ohio statute provides, in respect to student choice, that each school district must establish» [p] rocedures to ensure that an appropriate racial balance is maintained in the district schools.»

We know very little empirically about the degree to which public school choice writ large is associated with changes in the racial balance of schools, and if an association exists, through what mechanisms it might operate.

In Montclair, parents rank their choices and are enrolled with the goal of achieving racial balance.

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.

Charter schools - in - a-municipality may be established when a municipality obtains a charter school; enrolls students based upon a random lottery that involves all of the children of the residents of the municipality; and enrolls students according the racial / ethnic balance reflective of the community or other public schools in the same school district.

Charter schools - in - the - workplace may be established when a business provides the school facility to be used; enrolls students based upon a lottery that involves all of the children of the employees of the business; and enrolls students according to the racial / ethnic balance reflective of the community or other public schools in the same school district.

◦ the ways in which the school will achieve a racial / ethnic balance reflective of the community it serves or within the racial / ethnic range of other public schools in the same school district

Magnet schools have incentives to be academically successful and are required to maintain a racial balance, so they are never truly random in their selection of students.

8 This is not because race and socioeconomic status don't matter anymore; on the contrary, there is still a great deal of variation in racial balance even in Connecticut choice schools.

As important as racial balance is, the quality of a school is more often determined by the percentage of students in poverty, and the access students have to good teachers, experts say.

In general, state charter school legislation is less likely to contain requirements for enrolling ELL students than for racial balance or diversity standards.

The fight between federal officials and Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal started in 2013 when then - Attorney General Eric Holder tried to halt the program out of concern that it was upsetting the racial balance of some public school districts.

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 racIn 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 racin 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 racin 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.

Even in liberal Minneapolis, a 1995 public opinion poll showed that 75 percent of the public supported sending students to their neighborhood school — that is, the school nearest to where they live — regardless of that school's racial balance.

Your observation is valid, and I hope in all the post-event analysis a more balance racial mix will be considered when planning the next conference.

If the curators thought they would balance the scales by including Open Casket, thereby showing that White artists were open to engagement with racial issues, they blundered by neglecting to recognize that a White artist's engagement must be with the racial imaginary of Whiteness in order to matter.

In the exhibition, abstract paintings and sculpture from the 1960s through the 1980s by Barbara Chase - Riboud, Martin Puryear, and others show a desire to balance cultural and artistic identities, challenging the idea that work by African Americans should be viewed in primarily racial termIn the exhibition, abstract paintings and sculpture from the 1960s through the 1980s by Barbara Chase - Riboud, Martin Puryear, and others show a desire to balance cultural and artistic identities, challenging the idea that work by African Americans should be viewed in primarily racial termin primarily racial terms.

When curator Simon Njami first travelled to South Africa, in 1993, to work on an issue of the magazine Revue Noire, his editorial team engaged in this sensitive form of human arithmetic — «to make sure that a racial balance had been achieved.»

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?