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Tuesday marks 50 years since the Louisville School District merged with the county. The plan called for racial integration through busing. Former School Board President Diane Porter was a teacher ...
In 1970, Detroit's school board passed a voluntary desegregation plan of the city's high schools, which was met with opposition from white families, sparking a walkout of white students, according ...
September marks 50 years since Jefferson County Public Schools began ... While Louisville was recognized nationally for its peaceful integration of schools nearly two decades earlier following the ...
This week marks 50 years since U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. issued a decision ordering Boston Public Schools to end the practice of unconstitutional segregation of its students. But ...
Fifty years ago, Morristown and Morris Township schools came together in an arranged marriage after a “brutal” fight over integration. By 1972, efforts to integrate schools were running ...
Organizers are also planning a traveling exhibit of more than 50 photos and documents from the desegregation era, according to a press release. A PBS documentary, “ The Busing Battleground ...
At its height, around 12,000 to 15,000 students were mandatorily bused. While integration succeeded in making schools around the city more diverse, Bazzaz and the EdLab team ultimately found that ...
Jefferson County Public Schools will begin a new chapter of its storied transportation history Aug. 8 when nearly ... wasn't met with the same acceptance as the desegregation efforts of the 50s.
As the school doors swing open throughout most of the nation this week, the South and its 50 million people face a year of enormous significance. 1969 is the most crucial year for school ...
While a lower court judge ordered Michigan education officials to draw up a desegregation plan involving Detroit and surrounding suburban school districts, the Supreme Court overturned that order ...