Sentences with phrase «school desegregation case»

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.

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.

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 principle, it's based on the 14th Amendment and the 1954 school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.

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.

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.

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.

To comply with NCLB, the Richland Parish School Board notified parents that the Rayville Elementary School was failing, but on the advice of its legal counsel it prohibited Rayville's white students from transferring to certain other schools because of provisions «in the federal Richland Parish School desegregation case.»

The Justice Department may use the information in «federal school desegregation cases in Louisiana,» the judge ruled.

Bill played a prominent role in the Milwaukee School Desegregation Case.

A brief obituary on U.S. District Judge George F. Gunn Jr. in the June 3, 1998, issue of Education Week stated that the attempt to mediate the St. Louis school desegregation case was unsuccessful.

In 2011 - 12, a majority of magnet schools and technical schools were «integrated,» as measured by the standard set forth in the 2008 settlement agreement of the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case: a school with a student body composed of between 25 % and 75 % minority students... In contrast, only 18 % of charter schools met the Sheff standard.

The U.S. Supreme Court also has weighed in, writing in Missouri v. Jenkins, a 1989 school desegregation case, that paralegals provide the «cost - effective delivery of legal services.»

Boston's school desegregation case is a seminal chapter in the city's history and part of America's painful interracial narrative.

The Supreme Court spelled out in the school desegregation case Cooper vs. Aaron that states, including «the officers or agents by whom (the state's) powers are exerted,» must comply with Supreme Court decisions even if they disagree with them.