Sentences with phrase «school desegregation court»

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Falwell declared in 1958 that «If the Supreme Court had known God's word, I am quite confident that the 1954 school desegregation decision would never have been made.»

The most celebrated example of Federal intervention in state and local school affairs is the 1954 racial desegregation decision of the United States Supreme Court.

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.

Even where, as in Charlotte, they and their liberal allies control the school board, they have pushed the counterintuitive argument that courts should force the boards to continue busing on the grounds that they have not complied with the original desegregation decrees and need continued court supervision.

Therefore, they contended that a lower federal court in Little Rock had no constitutional authority to order the desegregation of public schools in Arkansas on the basis of the Brown decision.

The argument plays to Alabama's primal fear of federal control, a fear born of years of resentment over U.S. courts» ordering the desegregation of schools and the creation of black - majority legislative districts.

It is part of the Supreme Court's legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education and the implementation of school desegregation.

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

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.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certaiDesegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certaidesegregation order if they had met certain conditions.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

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 study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time...

For more than a decade after Brown, southern states and school districts did little to desegregate their schools, and the Court tolerated this foot dragging and in some ways encouraged it by proclaiming, ambiguously, that desegregation had to occur with «all deliberate speed.»

The findings set the stage for furthering desegregation efforts — in particular, court - ordered busing of students in an attempt to increase the diversity of city schools.

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 inSchool of Education (GSE), argues persuasively that the second most significant ruling about school desegregation is Milliken v. Bradley, which the Court decided inschool desegregation is Milliken v. Bradley, which the Court decided in 1974.

In an article about Frankenberg's study that was published in The Birmingham News in December, U.W. Clemon, a retired U.S. district court judge who was involved in desegregation cases in the 1960s, said that as a result of fragmentation, the schools in Jefferson County are «resegregated» today, and not by accident.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass., school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics of race - conscious policies in K - 12 schooling.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prSchool District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prschool affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

Eleven school districts in suburbs of Kansas City, Mo., have asked a federal appeals court to halt the St. Louis area's voluntary cross-district desegregation plan, contending that it could imperil their own desegregation case.

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 Supreme Court softened its stance on desegregation in the 1990s, ruling that school districts could not be held responsible for low student achievement in segregated settings.

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.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

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.

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 deCourt 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 decourt's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

As the days of desegregation by decree draw to a close, many schools and communities again find themselves asking how to preserve the perceived gains made under court - ordered plans — or to undo the perceived harm they inflicted.

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.

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

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in 1954, accomplished both less and more than the desegregation of American public schools.

San Diego is one of only a handful of California districts still under state court supervision for school desegregation, said Joe...

A reissued decision in the Topeka, Kan., school - desegregation suit gives a more detailed picture of a federal appellate panel's deep division over the need for continued court supervision in the historic case.

Racial desegregation: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether the DeKalb County, Ga., schools should be freed from federal - court oversCourt hears oral arguments on whether the DeKalb County, Ga., schools should be freed from federal - court overscourt oversight.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last Court last week.

Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.

The parties in the Kansas City, Mo., desegregation case announced the accord last month, just weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling absolved the state from having to finance some of the school district's most expansive and expensive desegregation remedies.

When the court - ordered desegregation plan in Prince George's County was ended in 2002, the superintendent formed a panel of experts on magnet schools that was thought to be politically and ideologically diverse.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Before the 21st century, he notes, the federal government did not tell states and local school districts how to run their schools, with the exception of areas like desegregation and special education where there had been court rulings.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

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 orCourt 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 orcourt - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orcourt orders.