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The Public Schools and the Challenge of The Supreme Court's Integration Decision
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Wells, Amy Stuart; Frankenberg, Erica – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
This past June, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared integration plans in Louisville and Seattle unconstitutional because of their focus on race as one factor in assigning students to schools. The Court's ruling in the "Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1" and "Meredith v. Jefferson…
Descriptors: School Districts, Court Litigation, Student Placement, Student Diversity
An Evaluation of the Effect of D.C.'s Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration after One Year. Education Working Paper No. 10.
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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2006
This study evaluates the initial effect of Washington, D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) on the academic performance of public schools and its effects on the opportunities that District students have to attend integrated schools. The OSP is a federally sponsored school voucher program that provides vouchers worth up to $7,500 for an…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Scholarships, Racial Integration, Public Schools
Magnet Schools: No Longer Famous, but Still Intact
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Rossell, Christine H. – Education Next, 2005
It was in 1968, when Martin Luther King had been assassinated, and American cities were erupting in flames because of King's violent death and the decades-long smoldering resentments from racism, that the nation's first "magnet" school opened in Tacoma, Washington. The following year, 1969, the country's second magnet school opened--this…
Descriptors: White Students, Quotas, Magnet Schools, Equal Education