Sentences with phrase «school desegregation efforts in»

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.

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.

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.

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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 schoolIn 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 schoolin the agency's coveted magnet 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 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 SoutIn 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 Soutin 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 Soutin the South.

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 ImprovemenSchool 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 Improvemenschool - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act.

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.

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.

«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 administraschool desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administraSchool Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

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.

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.

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.

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.