Sentences with phrase «with desegregation»

In a 1978 Journal of Negro Education, Harold Gerard wrote of his disillusionment with desegregation of schools and his disagreements with the evidence social psychologists presented to the Supreme Court in 1954 saying (1983, p. 875):

Magnet schools «have historically been a popular way for school districts to comply with desegregation orders» (Frankenberg et al., 8).

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.

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.

As for the district's complaints about the difficulties in complying with desegregation orders, here's an idea: instead of taking money from Tangi students and families who are no longer part of TPSB, learn from them.

It wrote that there was «overwhelming evidence of the Board's good faith compliance with the desegregation Decree and its underlying purposes.»

The Justice Department had sued to block Louisiana's voucher program on the grounds that it interfered with desegregation efforts.

Justice officials have said they be4lieve the districts have satisfactorily complied with their desegregation orders.

Before coming to the Baldwin, she worked at Brown University for three years as a coordinator for a desegregation assistance center, charged with helping New England school districts comply with desegregation plans.

Few remember that the Nixon administration conditioned federal aid to southern schools on their compliance with desegregation court orders; that policy appears to have aided the desegregation efforts that federal courts were insisting upon.

The timing coincides with the desegregation of many school districts, especially in the South, but other policy, economic, and social changes may also have influenced the achievement gap.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

The history of magnet schools goes back to districts addressing the issues with desegregation in the 1960s.

Some are rediscovering a spiritual connection to the town, like Angela Bassett, who plays a refugee from the island's black community, which made the place thrive in the 1940s before its culture began fading away with desegregation.

Not exact matches

The school desegregation story illustrates the general principle that to the degree that control of education is not exercised with a sense of responsibility for justice, Federal control will be introduced.

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

Even where, as in Charlotte, they and their liberal allies control the school board, they have pushed the counterintuitive argument that courts should force the boards to continue busing on the grounds that they have not complied with the original desegregation decrees and need continued court supervision.

By virtue of the team's watershed triumph, Texas Western and its coach, Don Haskins, were credited with setting in motion the desegregation of college basketball teams in the South.

With a single tweet, Chancellor Richard Carranza managed to escalate the city's baneful desegregation wars.

Hawkins says that Rob Astorino's record as County Executive in the Westchester housing desegregation dispute with the federal government shows that he would be unqualified to resolve this problem statewide.

But Fariña said she's happy with the plans to rezone District 3 schools and families must participate for desegregation to work.

Hawkins called for desegregation of the school district and consolidation with neighboring suburban school districts.

Also at 12:45 p.m., Coalition of Westchester organizations hold a press conference and rally calling on the court to enforce a 2009 desegregation order ahead of a hearing this afternoon on remedies to hold the county accountable for allegedly breaching its 2009 Consent Decree with HUD, steps of U.S. District Court, 500 Pearl St., Manhattan.

Paul metropolitan area with enrollments that are less than 10 percent or more than 30 percent minority to adopt plans for bringing about voluntary desegregation.

This was a basic finding from my interviews with adult graduates of Boston's voluntary city - suburban school desegregation program, METCO (recounted in The Other Boston Busing Story, Yale University Press, 2001).

Residents started leaving the historically white, blue - collar Belmont neighborhood in the 1970s with Dayton's adoption of busing for desegregation.

During the ensuing decades major desegregation and compensatory education programs were undertaken with the intention of rectifying these racial disparities.

«The Oklahoma City case study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from desegregation plans after only several years of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»

An income desegregation program that involves all students may avoid the concentration of children with fewer family resources in particular schools.

For more than a decade after Brown, southern states and school districts did little to desegregate their schools, and the Court tolerated this foot dragging and in some ways encouraged it by proclaiming, ambiguously, that desegregation had to occur with «all deliberate speed.»

Against a background of high unemployment, a low proportion of voters with children in public schools, and a desegregation order unpopular with many residents, the Columbus, Ohio, schools last week won their first tax increase in 13 years.

A decade later, the Ed School again tackled desegregation, this time with a case study of Boston, which had, since June 1974, become a public and legal battleground over busing.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

Today, Orfield's work with the Harvard Civil Rights Project seeks to keep civil rights issues front and center at a timewhen many desegregation orders are being slowly phased out.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

Because pairing and clustering mandates student involvement in desegregation and typically requires that students travel greater distances than under the redrawing of school catchment areas or other voluntary desegregation plans, the finding that this plan type produces the largest enrollment response is consistent with expectations.

If parents no longer thought of non-White, majority Free Lunch schools as synonymous with low test scores, they would be more open to desegregation.

September 20: «Learning from Boston's Busing / Desegregation Project» screens the documentary Can We Talk: Learning from Boston's Busing Desegregation Crisis, followed by a panel discussion with HGSE associate professor John Diamond, HGSE lecturer Karen Mapp, and Boston Busing Truth Project and Union of Minority Neighborhoods coordinator Donna Bivens.

A handful of experimental studies of desegregation programs compare participants with nonparticipants.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

We find that black achievement levels are negatively associated with the percentage black in a grade, indicating that desegregation policies that reduced this percentage were having the desired effect.

Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at HGSE, worked closely with Howe on the desegregation of the San Francisco school district.

And Brown only required the states to implement school desegregation «with all deliberate speed,» something less than a clarion call for immediately rectifying the effects of racial injustice.

With the important exception of school desegregation, judges have more often retarded than advanced the reform agenda.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

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.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

Before the 21st century, he notes, the federal government did not tell states and local school districts how to run their schools, with the exception of areas like desegregation and special education where there had been court rulings.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.