Sentences with phrase «system desegregation efforts»
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 Improvement Act.
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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.