Sentences with phrase «school desegregation»

A case study of school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

The reports also document the history of school desegregation in each state and across its geographic regions, including key desegregation cases and remedies, when applicable.

Dr. Trent's research on educational inequality has focused on school desegregation effects at the K - 12 and postsecondary levels, benefits and consequences, social organization of school, status attainment research, co - and extracurricular activities, and comparative education.

Willie was a court - appointed Master in the Boston School Desegregation Case in 1975 and was retained by the mayor to develop the Controlled Choice student assignment plan in 1989.

The decades since the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, have seen significant judicial oversight of school desegregation efforts in states across the country.

The Lyndon Johnson administration, unhappy with many of the findings, first tried to bury the report but then realized that no one had made a better case for school desegregation.

No. 1, supra, at 461; Seattle Public Schools Desegregation Planning Office, Proposed Alternative Desegregation Plans: Options for Eliminating Racial Imbalance by the 1979 - 80 School Year (Sept. 1977)(filed with the Court as Exh.

Today, this tactic continues even as school desegregation has been downgraded as a priority by the Congress and federal courts, but the politics of Republican support for private schools has gained new elements.

She grew up in Hartford and, as a child, was among the plaintiffs in the Sheff vs. O'Neill school desegregation lawsuit.

Virginia has a long and complicated history with school desegregation efforts.

Block Grant Fallout: A widely praised voluntary school desegregation program in Montclair, N.J., will be all but wiped out next year because the federal money that supported it must be shared by school systems throughout the state.

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

The negative effect on the mental health of those segregated was basic in the supreme court's milestone decision on public school desegregation in 1954.

At 16, Dorant Wells has experienced the complexities of what Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school desegregation ruling, has wrought: He attended a middle school full of students of different colors and nationalities, but one where he sometimes felt there were lower expectations for black students.

The plaintiffs in Connecticut's long - running Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case have gone back to court to prod state officials to put more effort into meeting the terms of a settlement reached last year.

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.

Below: Some Information on Boston School Desegregation (2004), mixed media installation with furniture, books, two - channel video, sound, wall text, included in «Through the Gates: Brown vs. the Board of Education,» California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 2004.

James Ryan, the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), argues persuasively that the second most significant ruling about school desegregation is Milliken v. Bradley, which the Court decided in 1974.

Here, Moses Crow watches Virginia and the United States government fight over school desegregation with the former represented by the CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimac) and the latter as the ironclad USS Monitor, the famous vessels that fought to a draw on March 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads.

The district's 2016 Opportunity and Achievement Gap Policy calls for a diverse corps, and Boston's longstanding school desegregation order requires the district to maintain it.

Educators should support school desegregation as a means to a more just and harmonious society.

Taken together, these reforms are the largest anti-inequality education effort in this country since school desegregation.

Although Jefferson County fiercely fought school desegregation in the 1970s, they voluntarily continued their integration plan once court oversight ended in 2000.»

SR: Although any new efforts based on federal law are likely to be limited, it may be premature to pronounce school desegregation dead.

Over that period, the federal government was aggressively promoting school desegregation in the South, and civil rights groups were attempting to extend their efforts to other parts of the United States.

U.S. District Judge George F. Gunn Jr., who had overseen the long - running St. Louis school desegregation case since 1991, died May 20 of cancer.

National origin issues in public schools may be self - identified by districts or may be identified through an active school desegregation court order, an Office for Civil Rights resolution, or an investigation by a federal or state civil rights enforcement agency.

These issues may be self - identified or identified through an active school desegregation court order, an Office for Civil Rights resolution, or an investigation by a federal or state civil rights enforcement agency.

Black students across the country experienced gains in school desegregation from the l960s to the late l980s, a time in which racial achievement gaps also narrowed sharply.

Yet for all he achieved in his seven years, Duncan said he's disappointed to leave office without having made sufficient progress in several other areas, including school desegregation.

The Harvard Project on School Desegregation report examines both these findings and the assumptions upon which they rest using court documents, district and state - level data, and interviews.

Now that the campaign to abolish busing for school desegregation appears to be close to its zenith, this is an appropriate time to remind you of the political dangers that will come with the success of this movement.

And Brown only required the states to implement school desegregation «with all deliberate speed,» something less than a clarion call for immediately rectifying the effects of racial injustice.

Lawyers for the state of Ohio last month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

Ruling in the Oklahoma City school desegregation case, a divided U.S. Supreme Court holds that districts that were once racially segregated by law may be freed from court - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orders.

The EACs are responsible for providing direct technical assistance on civil rights concerns to school districts and are the only centers that specialize in school desegregation work.

There is hope that charter schools can move the needle in increasing school desegregation around the nation.

Last week: Linda Brown, the young student at the center of the historic school desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education, died last week.

Some people think the decision involved school desegregation or some other issue.

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

Nonprofit Film Documents School Desegregation «Two Schools in Hillburn» is a documentary that details the struggle to integrate the schools, Main School for white students and the Brook School for black students located in Rockland County in 1943.

This was a basic finding from my interviews with adult graduates of Boston's voluntary city - suburban school desegregation program, METCO (recounted in The Other Boston Busing Story, Yale University Press, 2001).

A federal judge overseeing a 26 - year - old school desegregation case in Chicago has indicated that as long as some details are added, he is inclined to approve a proposed final settlement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice that could end court supervision of the district by July of next year.

In the early 1970s, the federal courts ordered a number of states to pay school desegregation costs, but these rulings were limited in number and had little overall effect on state systems for school funding.

At the same time, House members who oppose the use of mandatory busing to achieve school desegregation are planning a parliamentary maneuver to force the leadership to take up the bill.