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Download full textAnker, Irving – 1974
Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Ethnic Distribution
Paller, Alan; And Others – 1975
This study was commissioned to investigate the special transportation problems in parent-choice school districts and to prepare a handbook to assist transportation supervisors in overcoming these problems. Intended for school districts that have alternative schools, open enrollment plans, magnet schools, or other kinds of parent and student choice…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Delivery Systems
Evans, Charles L. – 1973
The Fort Worth Independent School District continued its court-ordered desegregation plan implemented in 1971-72. The evaluated design utilized in 1971-72 was extended to include bused black students in grade 3 as well as those in grades 4 and 5, and to ascertain any effects on the achievement of white third, fourth, and fifth grade students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Black Students
Herron, William P. – 1975
The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Peer reviewedTaeuber, Karl E. – Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1979
Racial segregation in housing and racially identifiable schools each contribute to the existence of the other. The case of Milwaukee shows that the Supreme Court's efforts to construe school cases narrowly should fail and that policymakers should take a broad perspective on racial problems. (RLV)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Housing Discrimination
Mitchell, George A. – 1988
The financing of Wisconsin's "Chapter 220" program, which is the primary means for implementing the 1988 federal court settlement of a school integration lawsuit, needs to be reformed. Total program costs may triple in 5 years, from about $32.5 million in 1986-87 to $90 million by the 1992-93 school year; per pupil costs could rise from…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compliance (Legal), Cost Effectiveness, Desegregation Effects
McKay, Robert B. – 1975
Congressional attempts to curb the power of the Federal courts in the area of school desegregation date largely from the Supreme Court's decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971. It is a response to the court's approval in that case of busing as a remedy that may in some circumstances be used to alleviate the effects…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Constitutional History, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
