Sentences with phrase «racial integration orders»

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.

In Jefferson County, Alabama, nine separate communities have seceded from the county school district and created their own new districts in order to avoid racial integration orders that involved busing, Chang writes.

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Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders

A half - century of court orders has dismantled the legal regimes of racial segregation without achieving much integration in the schools.

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.»

In order to meet the needs of their diverse student population, prevent racial isolation, and prepare students to navigate an increasingly more globalized society, LAUSD's Student Integration Services Office finds ways to provide more choices to students and their families.