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Public schools in Alachua County were racially segregated from the end of Reconstruction in 1877. In response to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.Board of Education, the Alachua County Public Schools Board was ordered by the courts to operate a freedom of choice system starting in 1964, when there were eleven all-black schools in the district.
Leanetta McNealy, Ph.D., a member of the Alachua County School Board, will be guest speaker at Gainesville For All meeting at 6 p.m. Oct. 25
It was not until 1953 and opening of the Carver Branch Library that the city's African Americans had access to a library, as public facilities were still segregated. The Carver Branch closed in 1969, after the main library's desegregation. In 1958, the city of Gainesville and Alachua County agreed to jointly operate the library for the county.
Since 2015, the ACLC has campaigned for the largest North Florida employers to pay living wages. [4] [5] [6] Florida state law bars municipalities from enforcing local minimum wage laws [7] but, using neo-Alinsky tactics and capitalizing on the national Fight for $15 movement, the ACLC pressured Alachua County and the City of Gainesville to adopt ordinances requiring their employees and ...
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Alachua County has eight candidates vying for school board seats. The primary election will be Aug. 23 and the general will be Nov. 8.
Loften High School The Professional Academies' Magnet @ Loften High School (or W. Travis Loften High School ) is a public high school in Gainesville , Florida in the United States . It is part of Alachua County School District and occupies a 174-acre (0.70 km 2 ) campus in a medium-sized community.
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