Sentences with phrase «school desegregation programs»

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

This was a basic finding from my interviews with adult graduates of Boston's voluntary city - suburban school desegregation program, METCO (recounted in The Other Boston Busing Story, Yale University Press, 2001).

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I'm only just starting this one, but I can already see that it's more social - history - driven than Free for All, including some fascinating insights on how such seemingly far - flung issues as race, desegregation and gender have played into the development of the current school lunch program.

In the most recent episode of This American Life, Nikole Hannah - Jones tells the story of a school district that accidentally launched a desegregation program.

An income desegregation program that involves all students may avoid the concentration of children with fewer family resources in particular schools.

Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders

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.

To judge by the quality of the educational evaluation work I know best — on school desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivschool desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivSchool Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectiveness.

Mary Washington, head of Local 420, responded that Hubbard had run away from the St. Louis schools when as a student he used the voluntary desegregation program to transfer to the Mehlville school district.

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.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

The Emergency School Aid Act, a $ 149 million federal desegregation program that provided funding to Montclair, was wiped out along with 25 other federal programs when Congress passed a package of education block grants in the summer of 1981.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

Under the new program, however, magnet schools not only had to aid desegregation, but also had to focus on improving the quality of education in order to qualify for funds.

A federal judge in Arkansas last week ordered the Little Rock School District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prSchool District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool - desegregation program.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Securiprogram, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Securischools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic SecuriSchools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic SecuriProgram (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

Thus, although proponents of magnet schools have not disavowed the desegregation goal that is the program's roots, they currently place almost equal emphasis on magnets as instruments of school choice.

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.

Superintendent William M. Kendrick's March 23 proposal to the city school board came some 10 years after Seattle became one of the nation's first major cities to undertake a comprehensive desegregation program voluntarily.

The program, the court ruled, is «outside the scope of [the 1975 desegregation ruling] because it provides aid to students rather than to private schools.»

In a «full evidentiary hearing,» Denver School Superintendent Joseph Brzeinski told U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch that the board's controversial «Total Access Plan» is an educational program that does not even mention school desegregSchool Superintendent Joseph Brzeinski told U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch that the board's controversial «Total Access Plan» is an educational program that does not even mention school desegregschool desegregation.

These chosen district schools largely comprise the country's 2,722 «magnet» schools (according to 2011 data), most of which offer themed programs and were originally designed to encourage desegregation by attracting a multi-racial clientele.

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.

District schools also could be chosen when families participate in open enrollment or inter-district choice programs, which allow students in one school district to attend schools in another, often as part of a voluntary desegregation strategy.

With its findings on the impact of peer groups, the report had an immediate impact on school desegregation, helping to spur the controversial busing programs that peaked in the 1970s and lingered into the 1990s.

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.

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.

The teenagers wrote opinion pieces on whether all students should be encouraged to attend college, the value of alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America, the importance of desegregation, or the best approach to school discipline.

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

Long - term studies of black adults who as children were subject to court - ordered desegregation programs, have found significant gains from attending integrated schools, including higher earnings and better health.

But the U.S. Department of Justice contends that last year's voucher program damaged civil rights progress by erasing school integration gains in 13 of the 34 school systems that are under long - standing desegregation orders.

The 12 - year - old program provides the federal government's only direct funding for school desegregation.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

The study, which one of the researchers provided to Education Week, also indicates that some grants under the federal magnet - schools program are going to districts that have no realistic chance of furthering the program's primary goal of promoting racial desegregation.

A model one - way desegregation program begun 15 years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out by order of the local school board, which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.

In late 2014, the state launched a first - of - its - kind desegregation plan — the Socioeconomic Integration Pilot program — using federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, funds.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfare Fund.

The U.S. Department of Justice tried to use a 40 year old desegregation case to undermine a program that's designed to empower low - income families with children trapped in failing schools a pathway to a higher quality education.»

Every private school participating in the voucher program must comply with the color - blind policies of the federal desegregation court orders.

In detailing the program's existence, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi found that segregation academies in the state were consistently established in public school districts that had either recently been forced to desegregate by the courts or had recently submitted desegregation plans.48 Appendix B of the court's ruling reveals the percentage of tuition that was covered by the vouchers offered to students at a number of the state's segregation academies.

«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.

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and

This federal program was established in the 1960s to assist local education agencies in creating and implementing plans for the desegregation of public schools.

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.

-LSB-...] Our goal in filing a motion for further relief -LSB-...] was straightforward: The United States is seeking the court's assistance in ensuring that the information Louisiana collects in connection with its school voucher program is provided to the United States in a timely fashion and that Louisiana implements its program in full compliance with federal law, including the desegregation order in this case.

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.

INNOVATION SCHOOL GRANTS Requires SDE to establish a pilot grant program, within available appropriations, for a local or regional board of education operating an innovation school to help the state meet the desegregation goals of the 2008 Sheff v. O'Neill stipulation and court SCHOOL GRANTS Requires SDE to establish a pilot grant program, within available appropriations, for a local or regional board of education operating an innovation school to help the state meet the desegregation goals of the 2008 Sheff v. O'Neill stipulation and court school to help the state meet the desegregation goals of the 2008 Sheff v. O'Neill stipulation and court order.

In fact, the earliest K - 12 voucher programs are rooted in our nation's disturbing segregationist history, starting in 1959 when schools in the South began allocating vouchers for white students to avoid complying with desegregation orders.

«The department's request is fully consistent with the Louisiana law that established the voucher program, which provides that the program is «subject to any court - ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school system in which the public school is located.