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Taylor Mattia – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Brown v. Board (1954) catalyzed a nationwide effort by the federal judiciary to desegregate public schools by court order, representing a major achievement for the U.S. civil rights movement. Four decades later, courts began dismissing schools from desegregation decrees in a staggered fashion, causing their racial homogeneity to rise. I leverage…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Desegregation Litigation, School Resegregation, Racial Factors
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Butler, Jesse K.; Kane, Ruth G.; Cooligan, Fiona R. – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
In 2017, school board trustees in Ottawa, Ontario, voted to close Rideau High School, an urban secondary school in a historically marginalized neighbourhood. The school board had argued that low enrolment at Rideau HS, and the resultant inability of the school to offer a full range of course choices, made closure the only viable option. To many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, Board of Education Policy, Declining Enrollment