Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusing to review a decision holding unconstitutional the state's 1956 Pupil Placement Act, cornerstone of the massive resistance framework...
...Pupil Placement Act removed from local school boards and division superintendents all power to assign pupils, and placed it in the hands of a state board...
...generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court† and leave nothing but turmoil for Virginia. Dalton's alternative: establish a pupil-placement plan similar to neighboring North Carolina's, admit a few selected Negroes. Under such a system, says he, every Negro child would have to take individual action to enter a desegregated school; most schools would continue segregated "for maybe a hundred years...
...Proper designation: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. t One initial law already is before the Supreme Court after being clipped by the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts have held unconstitutional a Virginia plan transferring control of pupil placement from school boards to the state government at Richmond...
...liberalization in the requirements for the advanced placement student would therefore give him more freedom and added intellectual stimulus, and yet still hew to that University ideal of requiring some intellectual nibbling from all fields...