Sentences with phrase «segregation academies»
"Segregation academies" refers to private schools that were created in the past to intentionally keep students from different races separate. Full definition
While we're at it, maybe we should close any private schools, whatever their racial composition today, that were initially established as segregation academies when public schools began to integrate.
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Ford et al. note that, by the late 1960s, there were 200 or more voucher - supported segregation academies in the South, enrolling perhaps 100,000 students.
By the end of the 1960s, more than 200 private segregation academies had opened in the South, relying on vouchers to cover significant percentages of student tuition, as well as other state resources to operate.
After all, even as segregation academies were operating in the South, staffers in Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity were suggesting that voluntary vouchers would be a better tool than forced busing to pursue desegregation.
The religious right — whether we trace it to the school prayer skirmishes of the 1960s or the segregation academy controversies of the 1970s or the response to Roe v. Wade and the sexual revolution — was always a multifaceted coalition.
An Atlanta multimillionaire has given a former «segregation academy» in southern Virginia $ 10 million and urged it to overcome its legacy of racial exclusion.
In the South, there were once private «segregation academies» for white students to avoid integrated schools.
By that time, efforts to fight desegregation were firmly in place, with white families across the state creating private schools referred to as «segregation academies,» for their own kids.
Even after vouchers supporting «segregation academies» were deemed unconstitutional, research showed that increases in private school enrollment were accompanied by decreased support for investments in public education.
Forman knew about the «segregation academies» some white communities formed to evade Brown v. Board of Education.
charter schools are just stealth private schools based on what a cabal of parents want for their kids — and they EVOLVE to be that segregation academy in a subtle and subversive way.