Not exact matches
A new study,
appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal
desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public
schools students leave and the private
schools in which they enroll.
Few remember that the Nixon administration conditioned federal aid to southern
schools on their compliance with
desegregation court orders; that policy
appears to have aided the
desegregation efforts that federal courts were insisting upon.
The first magnets
appeared as the
school desegregation battles were heating up.
An inter-district
desegregation lawsuit in St. Louis
appeared near resolution last week as a federal district judge agreed to postpone for seven days a hearing to determine the liability of eight suburban
school districts for segregation in the city's
schools.
But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which
appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12
schools and colleges offer — from voluntary
desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.
Cleveland, Miss., native Sanford Johnson
appeared in the film and acknowledges that blacks are understandably skeptical of charter
schools, especially those who remember attempts to avoid
school desegregation by setting up all - white «seg» academies following the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Because racial integration and
desegregation are part of the guidelines, it
appears that these are still goals of LAUSD magnet
schools.
In addition to
schools changing their objectives from
desegregation, the government
appears to also be placing less importance on this goal.