Sentence examples for ordered school from inspiring English sources

In 1965, Massachusetts had passed the Racial Imbalance Act, which ordered school districts to desegregate or risk losing state financing.

Officials ordered school districts to halt the practice and to refund the fee money they had collected.

Democrats said the debate echoed the battle over states' rights when the federal government ordered school integration and said the amendment could not trump federal law.

Malaysia ordered school closures in Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring states as worsening haze from Indonesian forest and agricultural fires enveloped the capital in a shroud of smoke.

Belgian school authorities quickly ordered school ski trips to Austria canceled, and the foreign minister, Louis Michel, made his widely quoted statement that it would be immoral to ski in Austria this winter.

Although the Supreme Court had outlawed segregation in schools, and had even ordered school districts to take steps to assure integration, the question of the legality of voluntary affirmative action programs initiated by universities was unresolved.

The city's public schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, ordered schools closed, probably through tomorrow.

The authorities ordered schools closed nationwide, though most cases were reported in central and southern Mexico.

In an attempt to project calm in the midst of relentless violence, Syria's Education Ministry ordered schools to open this week.

The police sealed off parts of the city and ordered schools evacuated, as gunfire reverberated through the city.

The state government ordered schools and colleges and the Bombay stock exchange to close for the day.