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- In 1977, the United States Supreme Court found that the Omaha School District practiced segregation in several ways, including discriminatory faculty assignments, school site selection, student transfer policies, feeder patterns, and school maintenance.
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Feb 6, 2018 · There were at least two instances of de jure segregation in Omaha’s history: The first was the Omaha Colored School from 1865 to 1872, and the second was the Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha’s school for Black students only called St. Benedict School from 1928 to 1968.
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Re-segregating Omaha Schools (2006) Ernie Chambers proposed...
- A Tour of the Omaha Civil Rights Movement
Feb 24, 2022 · On Aug. 10, 1973, the United States Department of Justice filed suit in United States District Court against Omaha Public Schools, alleging that, as a direct result of intentional actions by the school district, the OPS was illegally segregated.
Omaha Public Schools has a long tradition of segregation extending the entire history of the city from its first public school in the 1860s. In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Omaha end school segregation and the district implemented a plan to bus students citywide in order to integrate schools.
SchoolMascotLocationGradesAdams Elementary SchoolArchers3420 North 78th StreetK-5Ashland Park-Robbins Elementary SchoolTimberwolves5050 South 51st StreetPK-6Bancroft Elementary SchoolBroncos2724 Riverview BoulevardPK-6Beals Elementary SchoolBobcats1720 South 48th StreetPK-6Mar 15, 2022 · By the fall of 2021, just over 12,000 white students remained, making up about 23 percent of Omaha’s public school population. Before the pandemic, declines in white enrollment were offset by a growing number of Latino students in the Omaha Public School district, the largest and most diverse K-12 public school system in the state of Nebraska.
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Mar 28, 2018 · Re-segregating Omaha Schools (2006) Ernie Chambers proposed re-segregating public schools in Omaha. Nebraska Legislative Bill 1024 was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor, creating three racially identifiable districts.
In Omaha, African Americans were limited to the schools located in their segregated neighborhood of North Omaha. The few schools they did have were old, run down, and broken. Lerlean Johnson and Dorothy Eure thought that had to change.
Evidence of re-segregation began to emerge in some Omaha schools in the early 2000s, prompting a controversial new plan creating three distinct learning communities. The communities would be controlled by Omaha neighborhoods organized largely around patterns of race and ethnicity.
