Sentences with phrase «remedying school segregation»

Not exact matches

New York State did not actively encourage racial segregation in the Yonkers public schools and therefore bears no financial responsibility for remedying the problem, a federal judge ruled last week.

Judge Clark found the state and the school district liable for segregation, and then the issue became, what was the remedy?

The lower court had found that segregation in the Detroit schools could not be remedied without including suburban school districts in the busing program.

Instead of focusing on remedying the harm done to those black schoolchildren injured by segregation, the District Court here sought to convert the Kansas City, Mo., School District into a «magnet district» that would reverse the «white flight» caused by desegregation.

William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said that the Justice Department's practice of seeking desegregation remedies other than the mandatory busing of students «is not evidence of any decision to countenance unlawful school segregation.

Yet each case cited spells out the remedies appropriate for school systems already found guilty of de jure segregation.

Districts with very high or low FRPL rates can do little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries (although they can often do a lot by working with neighboring districts to allow students to attend schools across district lines)

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

In a 2007 decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the voluntary continuation of a court - ordered student assignment plan crafted to remedy segregation.