Sentences with phrase «when desegregation orders»

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

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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.

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.

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

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