Sentences with phrase «under federal desegregation»

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.

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

This included 34 districts 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.