Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
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... Tuition Grants and Private Schools .. Closed Schools and Tuition Grants in Virginia . Norfolk .... Charlottesville .. Warren County .. Prince Edward County . Constitutionality of Tuition Grants . • Implications .. Page 73 75 75 75 76 76 ...
... Tuition Grants and Private Schools .. Closed Schools and Tuition Grants in Virginia . Norfolk .... Charlottesville .. Warren County .. Prince Edward County . Constitutionality of Tuition Grants . • Implications .. Page 73 75 75 75 76 76 ...
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... Tuition grants disbursing State and local funds to pupils who prefer to attend nonsectarian private schools have ... tuition - grant system . Statewide compulsory school attendance laws , effective in all States except Alaska since 1918 ...
... Tuition grants disbursing State and local funds to pupils who prefer to attend nonsectarian private schools have ... tuition - grant system . Statewide compulsory school attendance laws , effective in all States except Alaska since 1918 ...
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... ? If there is no public control , is a privately owned and operated school subject to the constitutional ban solely by reason of indirect public support ? —by tuition grants , for example ? If so , what proportion II.
... ? If there is no public control , is a privately owned and operated school subject to the constitutional ban solely by reason of indirect public support ? —by tuition grants , for example ? If so , what proportion II.
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... tuition grants to attend school in an- other county . The court remarked that this method of providing edu- cation had not been acceptable under the outmoded separate - but - equal doctrine . It cited in this connection a pre - 1954 ...
... tuition grants to attend school in an- other county . The court remarked that this method of providing edu- cation had not been acceptable under the outmoded separate - but - equal doctrine . It cited in this connection a pre - 1954 ...
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... tuition grants . Mrs. Mary R. Green of HOPE ( Help Our Public Education ) , a citizens ' group whose purpose is to ... student who sought transfer from a school to be desegregated . All were unanimously denied.173 The State Board of ...
... tuition grants . Mrs. Mary R. Green of HOPE ( Help Our Public Education ) , a citizens ' group whose purpose is to ... student who sought transfer from a school to be desegregated . All were unanimously denied.173 The State Board of ...
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Page 7 - ... to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a non-racial basis, and revision of local laws and regulations •which may be necessary in solving the foregoing problems.
Page 1 - Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress In education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Page 1 - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of laws under the Constitution...
Page 66 - It is, of course, quite true that the responsibility for public education is primarily the concern of the States, but it is equally true that such responsibilities, like all other state activity, must be exercised consistently with federal constitutional requirements as they apply to state action.
Page 5 - In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority...
Page 85 - The constitutional provision, therefore, must mean that no agency of the state, or of the officers or agents by whom its powers are exerted, shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Whoever, by virtue of public position under a state government, deprives another of property, life or liberty without due process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition; and as he acts in the name and for the state,...
Page 79 - It has not decided that the federal courts are to take over or regulate the public schools of the states. It has not decided that the states must mix persons of different races in the schools or must require them to attend schools or must deprive them of the right of choosing the schools they attend. What it has decided, and all that it has decided, is that a state may not deny to any persons on account of race the right to attend any school that it maintains.
Page 238 - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; West, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Page 144 - State such part of the remainder of such sums as the rural population of the State bears to the rural population of the United States, according to the most recent decennial census.