Sentences with phrase «voluntary integration»

Before turning to that emerging body of literature, however, it is important to understand why integration matters and the legal landscape currently around voluntary integration.

The issue of school desegregation is once again before the U.S. Supreme Court, and some worry that a court ruling against voluntary integration programs will lead to the further resegregation of U.S. schools.

Over the course of the past two decades, a series of court cases — including a 2007 Supreme Court decision that struck down voluntary integration policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. — have created tough barriers for public schools attempting to pursue integration.

And it was this statement, as much as anything, that was behind Justice John Paul Stevens's observation in his dissenting opinion in Parents Involved that no member of the court he joined in 1975 would have agreed with Roberts — and Scalia — that explicitly race - based voluntary integration is categorically prohibited.

Neither of his responses, however, justifies his position on voluntary integration.

Under the plan, unanimously approved by the board late last month, the busing program will be replaced by a voluntary integration program making extensive use of new magnet schools.

No matter how you approach it, then, when it came to voluntary integration, Scalia abandoned what a commitment to originalism would appear to require.

First, the idea that voluntary integration is inconsistent with Brown, which Roberts suggested in the plurality opinion Scalia joined, is implausible.

Yet if the equal protection clause does not apply to school segregation, it obviously would not prohibit the voluntary integration of schools, either.

In fact, the trend line suggests that today Kennedy would likely approve a voluntary integration plan like the one he voted to strike down in 2007's Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.

A 13 - year - old desegregation battle in Englewood, N.J., has entered a new phase, following a state decision endorsing the voluntary integration of the district's high school.

The Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) was established in 1989 as part of the voluntary integration program of the Los Angeles Unified School District.