In fact, the schools closed last week received tens of millions of dollars
under the desegregation plan.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.