Sentences with phrase «with school desegregation efforts»

Virginia has a long and complicated history with school desegregation efforts.

«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.

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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.

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.

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.