Sentences with phrase «racial integration as»

Earlier this year, the President proposed a $ 120 million program called «Stronger Together» that awards grants to school districts for efforts to integrate their student populations voluntarily by socioeconomic levels, which often results in racial integration as well.

Charters were being used not to promote educational competition, but as a cudgel to pressure the school board not to pursue racial integration as a goal.

Not exact matches

This comes as an aside that Rorty does not develop, but it sounds suspiciously like support for racial integration and opposition to affirmative action and quotas, which are of course causes of a conservative hue.

For example, in the racial conflict, how idle it is to talk about «integration of hearts» so long as millions of blacks are not integrated into economic life.

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

It continues to divide the nation black and white, liberal and conservative, as post-1960s debates over mandatory integration, diversity, and racial preferences remind us.

According to the report in the New York Times, programs of busing to achieve racial integration in schools have already been struck down in cities such as Nashville, Oklahoma City, Denver, and Cleveland.

The romantic element was the belief that even as segregation reinforced itself by fortifying racial resentment, ignorance, and antagonism, integration would promote racial tolerance and harmony, evolving steadily from a government policy into a natural inclination.

The lack of racial integration in Lubbock schools originated with... Haley Hardison and Adelae Vayas added RBI singles as Lubbock Christian University...

It's nice for this kind of thing to be explored in a light hearted way for once as the theme of racial and cultural integration is usually met with such a negative attention in film.

In fact, the authors themselves must have had to laugh a bit at some of the liberties they had to take with the data in their unsuccessful attempt to portray charters as harmful to racial integration.

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.

Recent issues have included stories on teaching with web technology, racial integration, and coaching as a resource.

The aim of racial integration of our schools should be recognized as distinct from the aim of providing equal opportunity for educational performance.

Issues raised by the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wake.»

Moreover, U.S. District Judge Robert D. Potter's ruling this month could force the district, which paved the way for busing as a way to achieve racial integration of schools nearly three decades ago, to abandon the practice.

The commission for which I served as executive director of research was established as an attempt to forestall a lawsuit by the Milwaukee School Board intended to force metropolitan racial integration.

The pitch for greater judicial involvement comes as a state superior court judge must decide whether Connecticut's integration efforts have been adequate, or if more needs to be done to reduce the racial and ethnic isolation that persists among the schools in the Hartford region.

We identify as integration - improving student transfers those that move a school's racial composition closer to that of the relevant CBSA benchmark.

In recent years, the federal courts have been an impediment, such as when the Supreme Court struck down voluntary racial - integration plans in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle in 2007.

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

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.»

They contend that North Carolina's charter schools have become a way for white parents to secede from the public school system, as they once did to escape racial integration orders.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

The Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration, has taken no significant action to increase school integration or to help stabilize diverse schools as racial change occurs in urban and suburban housing markets and schools.

The NAACP's local branch, along with ivory tower integrationists such as Richard Kahlenberg (who has touted Wake County as an example of the academic success that can come from integration) have essentially accused the board of trying to return back to the racial segregation of the past.

In the original Brown decision, as well as a more recent case involving race and admissions to universities, a majority of the Court argued that considering race in school assignment constitutional partly because racial integration is an important part of the learning environment.

As a result of the decision, the Connecticut State Legislature passed legislation in 1997 encouraging voluntary actions toward racial integration.

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

Encourage state to adopt progress toward racial and socioeconomic integration as a fifth indicator.

This variation may disproportionately affect New Haven residents and act as a deterrent in the city's wider push to facilitate racial and socioeconomic integration.

As a result, redrawing zone lines could allow for more students of different racial and socio economic backgrounds to be included and create the possibility of integration (Saporito and Van Riper 2015).

Conversely, it could result in magnet schools being discouraged from trying to achieve racial integration and ending up being schools that are as racially segregated as neighborhood schools.

For this reason, many praise socio economic and racial integration by white upper and middle class families as a means to achieve better educational networks, resources, and opportunities.