Sentences with phrase «when desegregation»

My educational journey began in the 1990s, when the desegregation and integration of Philadelphia public schools were on the agenda of former Superintendent Constance E. Clayton.

That improvement was reversed when desegregation orders were terminated in the 1990s.

During the 1980s, when desegregation was in full effect — with forced busing in some cities and less dramatic strategies elsewhere — the black - white achievement gap on the National Assessment for Educational Progress shrunk faster than it ever has before or since.

Instead, the EEOS reflects an era when desegregation took voluntary forms.

When desegregation did occur, it was almost always on terms favorable to whites.

Not exact matches

This was in 1960, when Southern whites — growing anxious about desegregation — looked like they might soon defect from the Democratic party.

It is a big deal when as christians we should be leading the desegregation of these social frontiers... I challenge all christians to seek fellowship w / churches in your local area, that are predominantly of different races.

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

When you look at the desegregation cases here in Buffalo, [that was a] lawsuit.

When he showed that white flight to suburbia accelerated in the wake of central - city desegregation, the president of the American Sociological Association called for his censure or expulsion from the association for spreading «flammable propaganda.»

The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.

Before it was repealed in 1981, when the Congress passed the education block - grants law, esaa provided categorical grants to school districts implementing desegregation plans.

But perhaps this changes when school desegregation leads to cross-ethnic friendships within the school.

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.

Rivkin finds that black students» likelihood of exposure to white students in 2012 was 27 percent, compared to 36 percent in the 1980s when serious desegregation efforts were underway (see Figure 1a below).

St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.

Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality of K — 12 voluntary desegregation policies.

Mary Washington, head of Local 420, responded that Hubbard had run away from the St. Louis schools when as a student he used the voluntary desegregation program to transfer to the Mehlville school district.

The Emergency School Aid Act, a $ 149 million federal desegregation program that provided funding to Montclair, was wiped out along with 25 other federal programs when Congress passed a package of education block grants in the summer of 1981.

When the court - ordered desegregation plan in Prince George's County was ended in 2002, the superintendent formed a panel of experts on magnet schools that was thought to be politically and ideologically diverse.

Where desegregation has become a secondary goal, resource - rich magnet schools are often a target for cuts when money is tight.

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

Again, when we break out our results by race, we find that nearly 90 percent of African American transfers improve desegregation in their sending schools.

District schools also could be chosen when families participate in open enrollment or inter-district choice programs, which allow students in one school district to attend schools in another, often as part of a voluntary desegregation strategy.

These findings are essentially unchanged when we restrict our analysis further to only the 24 districts in which the U.S. is listed as a party in the original desegregation cases.

I certainly applaud the desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that school desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between desegregation and southern gains.

When we queried the Department of Justice, we were told that it would be hard to determine the total number of active desegregation cases.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited President Obama to tour schools with him when the president visits the state at the end of the week, the latest in Jindal's efforts to protest the Department of Justice's attempts to intervene in the state voucher program, which DOJ says interfere with desegregation efforts in some Louisiana districts.

«Alarmingly, the percentage of teachers of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago, when the final judgment in Boston's desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project Director at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

But since 1988, when education policy shifted away from desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated schooling increasing in every region of the country.

When one of the attorneys in the famous Sheff desegregation case said, «the state has an obligation to provide great, racially diverse schools,» Connecticut's Supreme Court agreed and ordered the legislature to take definitive action to reduce racial isolation in the state's urban public schools.

Federal courts issue desegregation orders when they find that districts or states are maintaining separate educational facilities and systems for students of different races.

In fact, the earliest K - 12 voucher programs are rooted in our nation's disturbing segregationist history, starting in 1959 when schools in the South began allocating vouchers for white students to avoid complying with desegregation orders.

When school districts merge the main challenges usually involve finding ways to improve test scores and cut costs without sacrificing educational opportunities, but the new Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District faced an even bigger challenge: desegregation.

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.

When the court order concerns desegregation, location would seem highly relevant.

A big court case came out of that area at the time, a big desegregation case and I developed a beat in courts and politics and then started covering more of the business aspects of law when I went to the Chicago Daily Law bulletin and then to American Lawyer Media.