Sentences with phrase «white suburban school districts»

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

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.

Not exact matches

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the SSchool desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the Sschool district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

Hamilton County merged with the Chattanooga district in 1997; while Hamilton County schools are suburban with a mostly white population, the Chattanooga schools are urban with a high minority enrollment.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

Once predominantly white and affluent suburban school systems, for example, are increasingly confronted with a host of demographic issues formerly associated primarily with urban districts.

It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district.

Syracuse made schools within city limits as racially balanced as possible, but left the predominantly white outer ring of suburban districts untouched.

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

The claim raised a few eyebrows, given that white kids are on the rise in DCPS, private school enrollment has been declining, and DCPS had to start a fraud unit because suburban parents were faking residence to get their kids into district schools.