Sentences with phrase «says desegregation efforts»

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In a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schools.

For example, early on, President Lyndon Johnson's administration said the report endorsed its desegregation efforts by showing that blacks benefited from an integrated educational experience while whites did not suffer from it.

A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over desegregation efforts in the San Diego schools.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

«I can't think of any administration that was in love with school desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

«We welcome the court's order, as it rejects the state's bid to resist providing even the most basic information about how Louisiana's voucher program will affect school desegregation efforts,» Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited President Obama to tour schools with him when the president visits the state at the end of the week, the latest in Jindal's efforts to protest the Department of Justice's attempts to intervene in the state voucher program, which DOJ says interfere with desegregation efforts in some Louisiana districts.

Although Duncan painted desegregation efforts as largely a flop, there were both successes and failures at all levels of education — preschool, K - 12 and higher education, he said.

The Obama administration has said that Louisiana's school voucher program, which allows children to transfer out of failing public schools into private schools on the public's dime, has hurt desegregation efforts in Louisiana.