Topic: Gary Orfield

School Desegregation

Over 50 years ago history took a giant step in the Brown vs. According to Gary Orfield , "between 1965 and 1970, federal leadership played a decisive role in ending educational segregation in the south and transforming it into the nation's most ...
Board of Education mandated desegregation of public schools. In an article called "The New Racial Segregation at Public Schools," Teaching Tolerance writer Tim Lockette tries to answer this question. According to Orfield, growing numbers of black, Latino and Asian American students attend ...

Urgent response imperative

Report says that improvement plan for West Las Vegas grade schools is not working Six elementary schools in West Las Vegas that have been operating since 1994 under an improvement plan devised by the Clark County School District have failed to achieve ...
But none of Clark Countys Prime Six campuses is among those rare break-the-mold schools, said Professor Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, which conducted the review.What isnt known is why the enrollment patterns are playing out the ...
Confusion Over New Supreme Court Ruling Leaks Into Old Desegregation CasesOfficials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away ...