board of education history

In 1892, an African-American man named Homer Plessy refused to give up his seat to a white man on a train in New Orleans, as he was required to do by Louisiana state law.

One particular organization that fought for racial equality was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded in 1909.

With a new school board established in 1911, the school district’s leadership began rapidly expanding in order to accommodate the city’s growing student population.

Original Songs of the Elementary Creative Music Project: the Pittsburgh Public Schools, June 1928.

Before a Baltimore City Court in 1935, Marshall argued that Donald Gaines Murray was just as qualified as white applicants to attend the University of Maryland's School of Law and that it was solely due to his race that he was rejected.

Beginning in 1936, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund decided to take on the case of Lloyd Gaines, a graduate student of Lincoln University (an all-black college) who applied to the University of Missouri Law School but was denied because of his race.

After Houston returned to private practice in 1938, Marshall became head of the Fund and used it to argue the cases of Sweat v.

“A Tentative Plan for an Aeronautics Course of Study”, drafted by the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education’s Department of Curriculum Study and Research, April 1942.

In 1949, the University of Oklahoma admitted George McLaurin, an African American, to its doctoral program.

1963 | Start of voluntary-transfer program in Seattle.

The International Baccalaureate was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1968 as a non-profit educational foundation.

December 1977 | School Board adopts the Seattle Plan, making Seattle the first major city to adopt a comprehensive desegregation plan without a court order.

The Diploma Programme (grades 11-12) portion of the IB has existed and grown in the Pittsburgh Public Schools at Pittsburgh Schenley High School since the early 1980’s.

In April 1988, representatives from 150 business schools and programs across the country met in Kansas City to consider the feasibility of forming a new accrediting body based on an innovative approach.

2000 | Parents Involved in Community Schools files suit over racial tiebreaker.

2001-02 | Due to ongoing court case, district stops using racial tiebreaker in assigning students to schools.

Beginning in 2004, grades 6-10 became a Middle Years Candidate Programme at Pittsburgh Frick.

These two complimentary programs offer a 6-12 IB experience, and will coexist under one roof as the new IB 6-12 school.In 2006, Pittsburgh Public Schools initiated robust goals of increasing IB enrollment and expanding the Program as part of its Excel 9-12 plans.

In the fall of 2007, the Superintendent recommended the opening of a comprehensive, whole school magnet program utilizing the Middle Years and Diploma Programmes for students from across the City of Pittsburgh.

In 2010, to better define the mission of the Association as well as to reflect a growing global presence, the decision was made to change the name of ACBSP to Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

Mayor London Breed supports recalling all three commissioners, including Moliga, whom she appointed in 2018.