Sentences with phrase «tools of desegregation»
Magnet schools were originally funded as tools of desegregation under the Emergency School Assistance Act from 1972 to 1981.
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Initially a tool for desegregation efforts in the 1970s (i.e., by encouraging white parents to stay in urban districts), magnets have evolved to serve a wide variety of purposes and settings.
But in recent weeks, settlements in cases involving Bakersfield, Calif., and the Ohio cities of Lima and Cincinnati have once again directed attention to these specialty schools as they were originally conceived — as tools for desegregation.
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 Security Act.
«Vouchers were seized upon by racists as one of the many tools they used to resist desegregation.
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.