Sentences with phrase «under desegregation»

According to DOJ, Louisiana has given vouchers to students in at least 22 of the 34 districts remaining under desegregation orders, undermining the desegregation process.

The current data shows a dramatic increase in the number of districts reporting that they are under desegregation orders.

While their lawsuit would not have revoked vouchers that the state had already distributed, it would have blocked all future vouchers to students in districts under desegregation orders without federal permission.

The school system was under a desegregation order from the U.S. Department of Justice, and Lakeview Middle, with its high population of poor students, was identified as having vestiges of inequity.

Giving parents citywide choice after decades under a desegregation order that failed to integrate the schools;

In fact, the schools closed last week received tens of millions of dollars under the desegregation plan.

Using Census and other educational data, Frankenberg found that just a few years later, starting in 1959, residents in predominantly white communities began to leave the county's school system, despite Jefferson County being under a desegregation order.

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

Not exact matches

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

In the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of LSP transfers enhance integration in the sending schools.

As a result, white suburban school districts were under no constitutional requirement to integrate their schools when their new white students had fled a central - city school district that was promulgating a desegregation plan.

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 program.

Because pairing and clustering mandates student involvement in desegregation and typically requires that students travel greater distances than under the redrawing of school catchment areas or other voluntary desegregation plans, the finding that this plan type produces the largest enrollment response is consistent with expectations.

In the same way that the old segregationist laws of the South forced blacks to the «back of the bus,» the California law amounts to «relegating minorities to the back of the courthouse under the subtle laws of the «New North,»» argued Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional scholar representing the minority - group plaintiffs in the Los Angeles school - desegregation case.

Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.

Despite the limitations imposed by the Supreme Court in Milliken I, several lower courts have since decided that cross-district desegregation plans can be legally justified under certain circumstances.

Lawyers for the state of Ohio last month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

As the days of desegregation by decree draw to a close, many schools and communities again find themselves asking how to preserve the perceived gains made under court - ordered plans — or to undo the perceived harm they inflicted.

San Diego is one of only a handful of California districts still under state court supervision for school desegregation, said Joe...

Magnet schools were originally funded as tools of desegregation under the Emergency School Assistance Act from 1972 to 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.

When considering only the districts that are under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of the transfers improved integration at the sending school.

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

Figure 2 looks at the impact of LSP transfers on public schools in the 34 districts that are under federal desegregation orders.

Resurrecting long - ignored school desegregation lawsuits of the 1970s, the DOJ petitioned a federal district court to permanently enjoin Louisiana from awarding any vouchers to students in districts operating under federal desegregation orders until the state had received authorization from a federal court.

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.

This included 34 districts under federal desegregation orders.

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 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.

The plaintiffs in Davis, along with others in NAACP school desegregation suits filed in Clarendon County, South Carolina; New Castle County, Delaware; and in Washington, D.C., would eventually be added under the umbrella of a larger desegregation case headlined by Topeka, Kansas» Brown v. Board of Education.6

L.A. Unified is one of the few school districts that are still under Court - Ordered desegregation.

It's worth noting that under the state's new Local Control Funding Formula, funding entitlements related to the old desegregation aid programs is continued in perpetuity for districts that have historically received the funds.

Previous administrations have adjusted the pace of enforcement based on their ideology and political will.32 For example, then - President Richard Nixon ordered the OCR to not issue clarification to guidance around school integration in hopes of slowing desegregation.33 Then - OCR Director Leon Panetta was forced to resign after he contradicted the president and agreed to issue clarification.34 At any given time, the OCR must evaluate violations of federal civil rights laws; it will now be up to Education Secretary DeVos to decide if violations are addressed or swept under the rug.

Detroit was placed under a court - mandated desegregation order that involved nearly 800,000 students and fifty - two suburban districts.

He grew up in Virginia under Jim Crow and, to this day, laments desegregation.

Of 70 Louisiana districts, 34 are under federal desegregation orders.

For over 40 years both school districts have operated under dormant desegregation orders.

The Justice Department is seeking to bar the awarding of these scholarships, also called vouchers, in public school systems that are under federal desegregation orders, unless the vouchers first are approved by a federal judge.

(b) In determining whether to make a grant, and in fixing the amount thereof and the terms and conditions on which it will be made, the Commissioner shall take into consideration the amount available for grants under this section and the other applications which are pending before him; the financial condition of the applicant and the other resources available to it; the nature, extent, and gravity of its problems incident to desegregation; and such other factors as he finds relevant.

As the spokesman points out, this is an example of a cultural change that started in the military sector and spread to become part of civilian culture (racial desegregation under President Harry Truman may qualify as another example).

saying the policy had been in place for 30 years, dating back to a time when school districts across Mississippi came under close scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over desegregation.

Certainly the NAACP, as I understand its position before this Court, denied that it had managed or controlled the litigation which it had urged its members or others to bring, disclaimed any desire to do so, and denied any adverse effects upon its operations if lawyers representing clients in school desegregation or other litigation financed by the NAACP represented only those clients and were under no obligation to follow the dictates of the NAACP in the conduct of that litigation.