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Direct linkPrice, Charie Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation analyzed court decisions in injuries on school grounds cases under the Louisiana Governmental Claims Act. The question addressed was: How have the Louisiana courts interpreted the Louisiana Governmental Claims Act in litigation against Louisiana school districts and their employees? The intent of this study was to show how…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, School Districts, State Legislation, Boards of Education
Peer reviewedMiddleton, Tiffany – Social Education, 2011
"The Problem We All Live With" is one of Norman Rockwell's most famous, and provocative, images. First printed in the January 14, 1964, issue of "Look" magazine, the image features an approximately six-year-old African American girl walking. She is wearing a white dress, white socks and white shoes. Her hair is parted in neat…
Descriptors: Art History, Artists, Boards of Education, African American History
Williams, Sheneka M. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
School consolidation in rural districts has been ongoing since the 1800s. Although many district personnel tout economic inefficiency as a reason for consolidation to occur, micropolitics among school board members, parents, and the business community often drive the consolidation process. This article presents a qualitative case study of Webster…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Consolidated Schools, Qualitative Research, Parents
Wishon, Phillip – Young Children, 2004
In this article, the author discusses racial and school segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, as well as the Brown vs. Board of Education case as an example. The Plessy case deals with Louisiana's separate car law, wherein a 30-year-old apprentice shoemaker named Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 Negro, was arrested for sitting in the Whites-only…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, School Segregation, Sanctions, Racial Segregation
Cage, Mary Crystal – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
The Supreme Court blocked a desegregation plan that would have required a sweeping reorganization of public higher education in Louisiana and the merger of the Southern University and Louisiana State University law schools. The governor wants to create a single higher-education governing board. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Quality
Cramer, Jerome – American School Board Journal, 1982
Describes Ku Klux Klan recruiting and literature dissemination activities in schools and communities and two particularly difficult conflicts caused by Klan activities in Meriden (Connecticut) and East Baton Rouge (Louisiana). Explains the legal issues involved and possible board and administrator responses to such activities and conflicts.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, After School Programs, Board of Education Policy, Compliance (Legal)
Download full textDays, Drew S. – 1978
Concern has grown among black educators about government litigation and administrative proceedings involving state systems of higher education as they relate to equality of educational opportunity. Properly prepared and presented to the courts, these cases can enhance equal educational opportunities by eliminating the continuing effects of past…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Blacks, Court Litigation
Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, Inc., Baton Rouge. – 1969
The requirement that public schools desegregate presents many problems for the school districts of Louisiana and other States, but also offers opportunities for improving educational quality for all students, regardless of race. Recent court decisions and civil rights legislation leave no doubt that the present minimal desegregation efforts of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Role, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2006
On July 28, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Secondary Education
