In 1954 the Supreme Court instigated the course of desegregating American public education, Brown v. Board of Education, in a revolutionary resolution. Another powerful action came from Congress for school desegregation by the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act In 1971. The United States’ government turned actively against school desegregation in 1981 under the Reagan administration, in which, the Justice Department inverted policy on many undecided cases and attacked urban desegregation orders. Congress accepted the administration 's proposal to end the federal desegregation assistance program in the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, by this act, twelve years of active efforts to reverse desegregation orders and remake the federal courts started. The Clinton administration in its first term defended some orders but developed no coherent policy and took no significant initiatives for desegregation. The segregation of black students in the South and Border regions increased between 1991 and 1994 by all three measures used in this study. The percentage of black students attending mainly minority schools increased more in the Southern states than any other region.
Hypothesis
There is a remarkably strong relationship between segregation by race and segregation by poverty in public schools across …show more content…
For many social and political scientists and scholars, investment in education in long run will improve many aspects of poor citizens’ life, from living condition to safety level of the community. Communities in which racial minorities are the majority. Many scholars believe that without any comprehensive plan to reduce poverty in minority communities it is almost impossible to raise level of education and its