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.
The Justice Department had sued to block Louisiana's voucher program on the grounds that it interfered
with desegregation efforts.
Not exact matches
«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.»
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 latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns
with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected
desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.
«I can't think of any administration that was in love
with school
desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
Virginia has a long and complicated history
with school
desegregation efforts.
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.
The dramatic black and white pictures, combined
with the fascinating and little - known tale of Sanders» involvement in school
desegregation efforts, made this Chicago Reader piece something everyone who came across it wanted to read.