In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education distributed $2,500,000 via a competitive grant program, the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans, to 11 school districts. The grants and their local effects provide an opportunity to examine the new politics of diversity in public education. Participants cited a wide range of conceptions of…

In June 2007, the Supreme Court limited the tools that school districts could use to voluntarily integrate schools. In the aftermath of the decision, educators around the country have sought models of successful plans that would also be legal. One such model may be Berkeley Unified School District's (BUSD) plan. Earlier this year, the California…

The body of this paper consists of brief descriptions, in alphabetical order, of desegregation resources, mainly in California. For convenience, the categories of resources are divided into desegregation education, desegregation planning, integration, and financial resources. Groups such as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Task…

Efforts to break down de facto school segregation, which usually reflects residential patterns, often involve busing some students to schools outside their neighborhoods. Although busing has decreased segregation, it has sometimes created problems of its own. Transportation administrators, interviewed in Riverside, Sacramento, Berkeley, Los…

Excerpts from the California Supreme Court decision on the right of the San Francisco School Board to effectuate a limited desegregation plan embracing the Park South school complex. (RJ)

This collection of case studies on school desegregation in nine American communities (Kalamazoo, Michigan; Newark, Delaware; Riverside and Los Angeles, California; Savannah, Georgia; River City and Bayon County, Mississippi; Chicago, Illinois; and, Hempstead, New York.) summarizes and interprets the struggles to solve this domestic social problem.…

This paper discusses the potential of individual States for encouraging voluntary desegregation at the local level. Desegregation history and State strategies in five States--California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Washington--are closely examined. In all of the States studied, State laws provide the State agency with considerable…

THIS INTERVIEW WITH TWO SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS RANGES OVER A NUMBER OF EPISODES, PLANS, EFFORTS BY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROGRAMS FOR BRINGING ABOUT SCHOOL INTEGRATION. MUCH OF THE MATERIAL IS CONCERNED WITH PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA., BERKELEY, CALIF., AND CHICAGO AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN "INTEGRATED…

NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS HAVE LONG BEEN A PART OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, HOWEVER, A PRIMARY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE OF THESE SCHOOLS IS SEGREGATION. THE SCHOOLS IN THE LOW ECONOMIC AREAS ARE SLIGHTED, AND THE CHILD IN THESE SCHOOLS IS SURROUNDED WITH PUPILS WHO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS HE HAS, THUS PROVIDING LITTLE MOTIVATION FOR IMPROVEMENT. SOME…

During the school year 1970-71, the schools of Pasadena, California were desegregated by Federal court order. The effect of busing on the housing market is explored. (CB)

Every high-achieving high school has parents and teachers who wish their student populations were more ethnically varied. When elite public high schools open their borders to less advantaged students, the gains can be significant. The Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment Program (VEEP) at La Jolla (California) High is described, along with other states' A…

Nearly 500 teachers in the Sequoia Union High School District (Redwood City, California) were surveyed in order to explore: (1) strategies they used to bring about integration in secondary schools; (2) techniques that discourage resegregation in desegregated high schools; (3) ways that the district's teachers draw out the best in students new to a…

REPORTS OF SEVEN TASK GROUPS WERE INCLUDED. TASK GROUP NO. 1 CONSIDERED THE "RAMSEY PLAN." INVOLVED WERE--(1) EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS SUCH AS COURSE OFFERINGS, COUNSELING, ACTIVITIES AND RACIAL DISTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS, (2) PROBLEMS OF STAFFING, FACILITIES AND LEGAL STATUS, AND (3) THE ADVISABILITY OF IMPLEMENTATION IN SEPTEMBER. TASK…

The report, prepared for the superintendent of schools in Berkeley, presents the proposals for and methods of achieving total quality integrated education throughout the school system. The document traces the development of the thrust toward school desegregation in the city. Various proposals and plans are suggested and the recommendations of the…