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Parents Involved In Public Schools Case Study

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In 2007, the Supreme Court voted down a voluntary student assignment plan in Seattle Washington and Louisville, Kentucky. These school district’s goal was to attempt to encourage racial diversity and ensure integration. Instead, this decision, appears to have the goal of extending and promoting resegregation in the public schools. Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District, also known as the “PICS” case, as well as the Meredith Custodial Parent and next friend of McDonald vs. Jefferson County Board of Education, were two Supreme Court cases that focused on the issue of voluntary school desegregation/integration efforts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky. Both school districts allow the parents to choose …show more content…

On the other hand, the Louisville and Seattle School District discussed the educational social benefits such as good citizenship and socialization of students enrolled in a diverse school. Based on these benefits, both school districts feel that their enrollment processes were justified. This case applied pressure on other districts to examine their enrollment process, if they too, use racial status as an important determining factor. According to Frey and Wilson (2008), this court decision can help school officials provide continuing education opportunities on integration policies. This can help school officials develop an enrollment process that aligns with the standards set forth by the Supreme Court in this case, meets the needs of the students as well as promote diversity. However, in order to develop appropriate integration policies, school district officials must understand the history of integration …show more content…

A school integration implementation program was created and then revised in 1996. This 1996 plan required the schools in Louisville to maintain a population of 15-50% of African American students. This plan was dissolved in 1999 when a US district judge ruled that Louisville was doing everything in their power to integrate; however, since the neighborhood lines were still segregated, it would make it difficult for the district to maintain integration status without considering race as a factor during transfer

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The article is accessible to anyone and is intended to inform the United States citizens who wish to learn more about court cases regarding education. There is no bias present in the article, but it creates a controversial argument to whether or not this is the correct way to determine a student’s college qualification. For example, Justice Alito argued that “the use of racial preferences is unnecessary to achieve the goal of diversity because the admissions process could use a race-neutral holistic review based on life experiences that would achieve the same effect” (“Fisher v. University of Texas”), meaning there are more ways to promote a diverse educational environment without including race as a deciding factor for each

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The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson established a legal basis for separate but equal practices nationwide. As a result of expanding de facto segregation, public services, including public education, began to adopt the discriminatory nature of “separate but equal.” The expansion of separate but equal practices in public schools has begun to compromise the quality of education and access to resources students of color receive. As we witness the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision unfold, it is important to consider how this legislation may impact the integrity of access to public

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Other substitutions that Kennedy offered included building schools in areas that would pull from diverse areas, using recruitment strategies and funding programs that could increase diversity. (Gutierrez & Rossow, 2009, p. 62). To Kennedy these options were better than what the schools were using at present and would not target students specifically based on race or use it as a defining factor. According to Gutierrez and Rossow (2009), there are three modifications that districts must make to their policies. Those modifications include

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The 9 African American teens challenged this case by calmly and peacefully enrolling into an all-white high school to simply only attend school. The teens peacefully stood outside waiting to be let in. Although the teens knew the danger they would be in they continued with their plan “ warned by the Little Rock Board of education not to attend the first day of school the students arrived on the second day with a small group of interracial groups of ministers. ”(Jaynes). The Little Rock Nine helped with civil disobedience but they did have a little help preparing for the road ahead of

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Still Separate, Still Unequal by Jonathan Kozol I found this article to be very interesting and extremely heartbreaking. Jonathan Kozol paints a vivid and grim picture of predominantly black or Hispanic schools in and around some the largest cities in America. Even in areas where the distribution of races is somewhat equal, Kozol tells us that most white families would rather send their kids by bus to a school where more than half of the students are white. Some schools, like Martin Luther King Jr. high school in New York City, are located purposefully in upper middle class white neighborhoods in hopes to draw in a more diverse selection of children, i.e. more white kids. It seems however, according to Kozol, that this plan not only did not work, but has made it a prime and obvious example of modern segregation in our schools.

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During the 1960’s, African Americans were facing extreme segregation with the Jim Crow Laws enforcing “separate but not equal” schools. In defiance of this there was a case of Brown vs. the Board of Education which had a unanimous decision that separate but equal schools should no longer exist because of it being “unconstitutional.” With this victory, blacks are now to be able to conjoin with whites and get a better education, a “white education”. We, representing the NAACP, have reason to believe that the idea of desegregating education is a step forward. To have a better future, the Supreme Court ruled that the Board of Education of Topeka desegregate schools and if this isn’t enforced, other schools won’t comply with what the Supreme Court

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Board of Education is a very important landmark case. This case addressed the constitutionality of segregation in public schools back in the early 1950s. When the case was heard in a U.S. District Court a three-judge panel ruled in favor of the school boards. The plaintiffs then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court went through all its procedures and eventually decided that “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” ().

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Brown v. Board of Education was the most influential and important case of the twentieth century in the way it shaped American society by ending de jure segregation in schools. The case promised to end segregation schools with “deliberate speed” and to give African Americans public school students equal opportunity. Yet today, even Supreme Court Justices recognize “it remains the current reality that many minority public school students encounter remarkably inadequate an unequal educational opportunities”. African American students continue to lack equal access to a high quality education and continue to lag far behind their white peers in reading and math proficiency, high school graduation rates, and college completion. Indeed.

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Shortly after the case citizens of Topeka began to see social change within the community, “it opened an era of civil rights, protests and legislation of accomplishment” (Goodman). Not every citizen believed that schools should not be separate, and those who did believe that the schools should be separate originate in the South. Results from the case did not happen immediately, the ruling began having an effect a few years after the case. A decade after the case it was seen that the number of colored students in white schools increased, “two-thirds of black students were in virtually all-black schools, after the case ended that number went down to one-third” (Goodman). School districts were open and allowing colored students to enroll in their school.

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Have you ever had someone tell you that you can’t do something that you wanted to do? How did that make you feel? Did you end up being able to do that thing later? Well if the government takes books off of the shelves, how are we going to be able to read them? We won’t be able to read them.

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In 1957, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’s decision, segregation in public education violated the Fourteen Amendment, but Central High School refused to desegregate their school. Even though various school districts agreed to the court ruling, Little Rock disregarded the board and did not agree to desegregate their schools, but the board came up with a plan called the “Blossom plan” to form integration of Little Rock High despite disputation from Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Desegregating Central high encountered a new era of achievement of black folks into the possibility of integrating public schools, and harsh resistance of racial integration. Although nine black students were admitted into Little Rock harsh violence and

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Brittney Foster SOCY 423 UMUC 03/01/2018 Racial integration of schools Racial integration is a situation whereby people of all races come together to achieve a common goal and hence making a unified system. Racial integration of schools is well elaborated in the two articles by Pettigrew and Kirp. These two articles say that combination in the American schools since 1954 has unceremoniously ushered out the Brown versus Board of Education which was a decision made by the Supreme Court. The topic of discussion of these two articles hence is relevant to our course since it gives us the light of how racial desegregation and racial integration shaped America’s history.

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