Desegregation

Read more about efforts to reduce racial isolation in schools, including by courts, agencies, and districts
Equity & Diversity Curtain Falls on Desegregation Era in Nashville
The 43-year-old federal desegregation case that has often polarized the white and black communities in Nashville, Tenn., ended last week after an emotional four-hour hearing and the stroke of a judge's pen.
October 7, 1998
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3 min read
Equity & Diversity Taxes, Transfer Program on the Table in St. Louis Desegregation Settlement
When he signed a recent bill aimed at ending court-ordered school desegregation in Missouri, Gov. Mel Carnahan hailed it as "a monumental piece of legislation." The measure's final outlines, however, are scarcely set in stone.
Caroline Hendrie, August 5, 1998
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4 min read
Equity & Diversity Highlights of New Funding Law
Several major provisions of Missouri's new school funding law will take effect only if the parties to St. Louis' 26-year-old desegregation case reach a settlement.  Many other features are slated to kick in regardless of whether such a deal is reached.
August 5, 1998
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2 min read
Equity & Diversity Study: Inequalities Persist in Access to Higher Education

A recent report highlighting stagnant graduation rates for black college students has brought renewed attention to the need for greater cooperation between K-12 schools and higher education.

Julie Blair, August 1, 1998
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4 min read
Philip N. Bredesen
Equity & Diversity In Indianapolis, Nashville, a New Era Dawns
Court-ordered desegregation plans in Indianapolis and Nashville, Tenn., are on their way out, following landmark developments in the legal battles that have embroiled the two city districts for decades.
Caroline Hendrie, July 8, 1998
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6 min read
Equity & Diversity Plan Would Join Hartford With Surrounding Districts
As the desegregation case in Hartford, Conn., heads back to court this fall amid complaints that the state has failed to ensure integration of its schools, a nonprofit group is floating a plan to achieve that aim by consolidating 22 districts into a single system.
Jeff Archer, July 8, 1998
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3 min read
Frank Sellew
Equity & Diversity Legal Issues Complicate Efforts To Integrate School Staffs

Shortly after a federal judge declared this city's schools officially desegregated in 1995, the school board here sent a message to anyone wondering whether its commitment to affirmative action would outlive the court order that had held sway for the past two decades.

Caroline Hendrie, June 24, 1998
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8 min read
Equity & Diversity A Denver High School Reaches Out To the Neighborhood It Lost to Busing
Gathered for a routine planning retreat in the fall of 1996, the leaders of Manual High School suddenly found themselves embroiled in a showdown. At stake was the future of a school that had become this city's desegregation showpiece.
Caroline Hendrie, June 17, 1998
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9 min read
Gary Orfield
Equity & Diversity Pressure for Community Schools Grows as Court Oversight Wanes
In Kansas City, Kan., they're known as "comprehensive community schools." Boston calls them "walk-to schools." And in Denver, Oklahoma City, and San Jose, Calif., they're plain old neighborhood schools.
Caroline Hendrie, June 17, 1998
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5 min read
School & District Management New Magnet School Policies Sidestep an Old Issue: Race
As the days of desegregation by decree draw to a close, many schools and communities again find themselves asking how to preserve the perceived gains made under court-ordered plans--or to undo the perceived harm they inflicted. Past policies seem no longer to fit in a climate that looks with suspicion on drawing distinctions on the basis of race or ethnicity.
Caroline Hendrie, June 10, 1998
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11 min read
School & District Management Houston Reaches for Diversity Without Quotas

Ask people what they think of this city's new policy on divvying up slots in public magnet programs, and just about everyone has a story--or at least an opinion.

Caroline Hendrie, June 10, 1998
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4 min read
John Nowicki
School & District Management Buffalo Seeks a Smooth Transition After Release From Court Oversight

In a classroom of the Frederick Law Olmsted School one recent afternoon, a team of educators pored over a stack of applications for six-dozen coveted spots in the school's incoming kindergarten class.

Caroline Hendrie, June 10, 1998
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4 min read
School & District Management As Busing Fades Away, What Lies Ahead?
It has never, ever been easy. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education decision struck down separate public schools for blacks and whites, coping with the aftermath has always been a struggle.
June 10, 1998
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1 min read
School & District Management Protesters Derail Minneapolis Board Meeting

About 100 protesters and angry parents led by local officials of the NAACP stormed the Minneapolis school board's final meeting of the year last week, prompting board members to leave the meeting with their business unfinished.

Kerry A. White, June 3, 1998
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5 min read
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