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Lawyers for Baltimore public housing residents are asking a federal judge to order the creation of 3,000 new low-income housing units and an additional 3,750 housing vouchers, mostly in well-off suburban neighborhoods with good schools and access to jobs. The request comes 14 months after the judge found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development violated fair housing laws by failing to take a regional approach to the desegregation of city public housing. It asks the federal agency to provide tenants with 675 new "housing opportunities a year over the next decade to reduce the effects of decades...

See this thread first. K.C. has a new set of schools Which break the old liberal rules Races, for a start Are now kept apart so libs look like hypocrite fools!

He restores control to district after 22 years of supervision. A federal judge ordered a halt Tuesday to 22 years of court supervision over San Francisco schools' desegregation policies, saying the involvement of the legal system may only be increasing segregation. U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected requests by the San Francisco Unified School District, the NAACP and a group of Chinese American parents to extend by 18 months a court order, known as a consent decree, that governs school assignments. The order, first signed in 1983 to settle a suit that accused the district of policies that segregated African...

ATLANTA — Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" in 1963, died Thursday. She was 63. Jones, who went on to become the first black to graduate from the school, died at Atlanta Medical Center, where she had been admitted Tuesday after suffering a stroke, said her sister, Sharon Malone. "She was absolutely fine Monday," Sharon Malone said. Jones, a retired federal worker who lived in Atlanta, grew up in Mobile, Ala. She had enrolled at historically black Alabama A&M...

Retired U.S. District Judge William Augustus Bootle, who overruled Southern tradition and ordered the desegregation of the University of Georgia and Bibb County public schools, died early Tuesday. He was 102. Bootle died peacefully at his home between 1 and 1:30 a.m., said his daughter Ann Hall. "He went to sleep," she said. "We had been with him, my brother and I, that afternoon." The centenarian judge had rebounded from a pre-Christmas hospitalization for kidney trouble, but recently suffered a light stroke and was having heart failure, she said. Bootle served as judge in the U.S. District Court in Georgia's...

Public housing plan generates complaints, praise Similar desegregation proposal failed 10 years ago By Foster Klug Associated Press BALTIMORE - A judge's ruling to desegregate public housing by moving its mostly black and poor residents to the suburbs - a plan similarly proposed and rejected a decade ago - seems to be generating the same old resistance, and, surprisingly, some cautious new support. The ruling by Judge Marvin Garbis came Jan. 6 in a 10-year-old civil rights case in which the judge decided Baltimore "should not be viewed as an island reservation for use as a container" for the region's...

“You mean,” said Marina, “you mean that we’re sitting here over Hell?” “Over a hell, conceivably. There are many hells, and the same place may be Hell or Purgatory, depending upon the situation. Most of them are private.” Those words echo in my thoughts as we approach the building. Turner School, built in 1898, is no Balgrummo Lodging, the Scottish manor house that is the setting of Russell Kirk’s Lord of the Hollow Dark, and not simply because the massive brick-and-stone structure sits right in the heart of Rockford, Illinois, about as far geographically and culturally as you can get...

That Brown Decision I listened to all the palaver about the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ended racial segregation mandated by law. All of the talkers seem to have forgotten one important point: providing a sound education to the children. Let's note at the outset that the decision was good. It upset a system based on a lie. That lie was that "separate but equal" met the constitutional requirement of equal rights. It was a lie because the facilities were separate but almost never equal. In my entire career, I have never written a word criticizing busing children, even when...

<p>McCOMB MS— Joyce McGhee remembers the fall of 1971 and court-ordered school desegregation.</p> <p>Her children and their cousins sometimes were the only black students in a class.</p> <p>"They probably felt uncomfortable, but they didn't express it at the time," she said.</p>

ALEXANDRIA (AP) -- A federal judge has signed off on a plan that marks the beginning of the end of a 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit against the Rapides Parish School district. The district is now free from 40 years of federal oversight of its school buildings. ''I think the judge has realized we have done the best we can do,'' said district maintenance director Randy Patterson. Patterson said he's still got some work to do on infrastructure work in some of the schools and the historical racial background of a school will still be in the back of his mind when...

Offside! The Public High League once dominated the local gridiron scene, and suburban districts were perennial doormats. Now it's the other way around. Ever wonder why? BY MATTHEW EVERETT The ball is at the one-yard line. It's third down. The Webster Groves Statesmen, in front of a home crowd at Hixson Middle School, trail the Jefferson City Jays by seven points with just under ten minutes left in the first half. It's the first Friday in October, the first night this fall that's truly felt like football weather. The lights above the stadium give the field an unnatural glow. A...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The nation's longest-running school desegregation lawsuit was officially ended after 47 years when a federal judge signed a settlement agreement and dismissed the case. Amid clapping and mutual congratulation, U.S. District Judge James Brady on Thursday ended the suit with a paraphrase from William Faulkner - ``at some point the law ends and people begin.'' Brady then signed the settlement on a desk wheeled onto the steps of the federal courthouse for the occasion. Despite the jubilation, some viewed the settlement as a hollow victory. Middle-class whites have largely abandoned this city's beleaguered, 45,000-student school...

School District Released From Desegregation Case Ruling Frees District From Court Supervision POSTED: 11:26 a.m. CDT August 13, 2003 UPDATED: 4:58 p.m. CDT August 13, 2003 KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple released the Kansas City, Mo., School District from the 26-year-old desegregation case Wednesday. The ruling means the school district is free from court supervision. In issuing his decision, Whipple said that the district "is unlikely to discriminate against African-American children again." He said his decision would "allow the superintendent to make routine decisions" without seeking court approval. Whipple previously released the district from federal...

A liberal state representative from Concord was forced to publicly apologize last night for saying in an animated speech on the House floor that she supported a Boston desegregation program because she would rather have minority kids ``come to my schools than . . . come to my prisons.'' State Rep. Cory Atkins, wife of former U.S. Rep. Chester G. ``Chet'' Atkins, drew a private rebuke from one of her fellow liberal Democrats after the speech late Tuesday night, sources said. Freshman Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Jamaica Plain) felt the remarks could be interpreted as racist, according to sources. Last night,...

King's dream fades as suburban sprawl leads to racial separation WASHINGTON -- On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a new study shows that the nation is "clearly regressing" from his dream of an America in which black and white children study and play together, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University reports. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, King said he envisioned a world in which one day "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." In 1970, two years after...

A lota Lott is too much Lott. That’s it. For the good of common sense. For the good of the USA. For the good of the Congress. For the good of moving on with real politics. Cut the lota Lott! Obviously, three main thrusts are at work in this on-going non-story: Demos are mad as mad can be. Why? Because they lost considerably in recent elections and so they lunge to make much adieu about nothing. Kids do it in school all the time. It’s called "getting attention." Some (not the logical, responsible ones) blacks have felt politically ignored (read...

<p>Robert Morgan Posted on November 27, 2002 Part of a series.</p> <p>BATON ROUGE - The head of the school system with the state's longest running desegregation lawsuit stopped short of saying local officials have historically blocked efforts to resolve the case.</p>

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University found integration between whites and blacks to be decreasing or steady in all but a handful of the nation’s largest school districts over the last 14 years. The report is online at www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights. Attorney Chester Darling, who represents parents fighting a desegregation policy in the NorthEastern town of Lynn, Massachusetts, questioned the study’s assumptions about diversity’s value, though. He also said any new push to create school diversity must be driven by parents and NOT government. “When you have a government involved in enforcing a particular form of diversity, then you have a...

Parents Challenge Desegregation Law By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Writer June 3, 2002, 10:03 PM EDT BOSTON -- Parents went to federal court Monday to challenge a town's voluntary desegregation plan as an unconstitutional use of race to keep families from sending children to schools of their choice. Under the plan in Lynn, transfers of students outside their own neighborhoods can be denied if they disturb a racial balance. Lynn's policy was written 14 years ago to comply with the state's voluntary racial imbalance law, which asks public school districts to desegregate schools with a minority population of more than...