She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary
school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.
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, Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., created magnet schools as part of
its school desegregation efforts in the late 1970s.
Her dissertation research entitled, Community Perspectives on Black Parent Engagement in West Las Vegas, Before and After Desegregation: A Case Study examines community perspectives concerning Black parent engagement in West Las Vegas before and after
school desegregation efforts in Clark County, Nevada.
Our analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public -
school desegregation efforts.
«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.
GOP bill could dismantle one of nation's most robust
school desegregation efforts washingtonpost.com/local / educatio
Virginia has a long and complicated history with
school desegregation efforts.
The dramatic black and white pictures, combined with the fascinating and little - known tale of Sanders» involvement in
school desegregation efforts, made this Chicago Reader piece something everyone who came across it wanted to read.
Critical Race Theorist Derrick Bell posits that advocacy and litigation affected by international shame have been the primary techniques for prompting change in America's
school desegregation efforts.
Not exact matches
Steven Rivkin:
Desegregation efforts did improve the racial balance of public
schools.
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.
The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary
desegregation that allows parents some choice about which
schools their children will attend — and other
desegregation efforts benefit minority students.
The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million
effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia
schools resisted
desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.
A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old
desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala.,
schools, after declaring further
efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.
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.
As the potential for
desegregation efforts is determined by the distribution of students among districts, I report the index for districts as well as for
schools.
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.
Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other
school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous
desegregation efforts in southern states.
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.»
NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of
efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public
schools, including
desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and
school finance and adequacy cases in the states.
The Prince George's County, Md.,
school board has reached a milestone in its lengthy
effort to end mandatory busing dating to a 1972
desegregation order.
The tax increases will underwrite $ 187 million in capital improvements to
schools, $ 35.7 million in pay raises for teachers, and other elements of the
desegregation effort.
A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over
desegregation efforts in the San Diego
schools.
It convinced Congress to abolish the Emergency
School Aid Act program, enacted in 1972 to support school - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvemen
School Aid Act program, enacted in 1972 to support
school - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvemen
school - system
desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act.
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.
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.
The DOJ's brief cites two public
schools where it claims
desegregation efforts were harmed by the LSP.
The
school board voted last month to buy out Superintendent Henry Williams» contract after a report by a court - appointed committee that monitors
desegregation efforts concluded that the district lacked leadership.
Louisville, Ky.,
school officials have approved a new student - assignment plan that emphasizes
school reform at the expense of
efforts to achieve
desegregation.
The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal
school -
desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s.
These findings should help mitigate fears that
school choice is harming
desegregation efforts in Louisiana.
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.
Shep Melnick (Boston College) and James Ryan (University of Virginia
School of Law) draw lessons from judicial efforts to promote school desegregation and civil r
School of Law) draw lessons from judicial
efforts to promote
school desegregation and civil r
school desegregation and civil rights.
The federal appellate ruling last month lets stand a massive court - ordered property - tax hike imposed last fall on the city's residents to help fund the
school district's
desegregation efforts, which are among the most comprehensive and expensive ever undertaken.
There's no denying the state's racist history of
school segregation or its ugly
efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine
desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated
schools.
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School choice lottery a mystery for parents, desegregation efforts stall TBT: He wakes up at 4:10 a.m. to go to high s
School choice lottery a mystery for parents,
desegregation efforts stall TBT: He wakes up at 4:10 a.m. to go to high
schoolschool.
These awards recognize magnet
schools that demonstrate commitment to high academic standards, curriculum innovation, successful
desegregation and diversity
efforts, and consistent delivery of high quality educational services to all stakeholders.
The committee stalled
desegregation efforts by giving local
school districts control over student assignments at particular
schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public
schools.
National merit awards are given to magnet
schools that demonstrate a commitment to high academic standards, curriculum innovation, successful
desegregation and diversity
efforts, and strong parent and community involvement.
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.
Darien Franco, 2011 graduate of Capital Preparatory Magnet
School told me, «I think that the
desegregation goal is a bit superficial because what I assume is the whole point is part of an
effort to make sure everyone's getting a similar, quality education.
The principal of a Manhattan public
school where white parents spoke out against
desegregation efforts has requested more police at her campus.
But since 1988, when education policy shifted away from
desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated
schooling increasing in every region of the country.
For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 -
school district have been pushing to return to zoned
schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet
schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long
desegregation effort.
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.
School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation mov
School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national
effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the
school desegregation mov
school desegregation movement.