The all black, economically disadvantaged city of Lincoln Heights adjoins the Princeton school district. In February of 1970, the Ohio State Department of Education, after making several inspections of the Lincoln Heights Schools, revoked their charter and ordered them closed. After a series of meetings with three adjoining school districts, the State Board of Education transferred the Lincoln Heights District, with its enrollment of about 1900 black students, into the Princeton City School District. Two weeks after the transfer, approximately 175 black students and 40 parents staged a sit-in at Princeton High School. The superintendent of Princeton immediately established an Advisory Committee of blacks and whites representing every community in the Princeton School District. A three-year phase-in program was developed by the Advisory Committee and the Princeton staff, approved by the Board of Education and given wide publicity. With a superb effort during the 1970-71 school year, the people of the Princeton District far exceeded this first phase-in plan. The Board of Education announced in February, 1971, a two year step-up in the phase-in process to be effective September 1, 1971. There was no overt opposition to this plan. (Authors/JM)