To help school districts with the task of assigning students to schools in order to achieve desegregation, the Illinois Institute of Technology has developed a system involving the use of planning techniques and computer technology that greatly simplifies the school district's job. The key features of the system are objectivity, minimum…

The Creative Learning Center, funded under the Emergency School Assistance Program, addressed three problems related to the Dallas school district's 1971-72 desegregation plan: (1) lack of opportunity for racial mixing; (2) racial stereotyping; (3) preconceived ideas causing suspicion and hostility when races do mix. The Center was a model of how…

This first report of the Desegregation Monitoring and Advisory Committee reviews school regulatory policies resulting from the implementation of court ordered desegregation in the St. Louis, Missouri public schools. These policies address these issues: (1) the safety and security of school children; (2) the transportation of children; (3) the…

This educational plan for voluntary, cooperative school desegregation was designed to provide the St. Louis, Missouri Public School System with strategies for coping with desegregation effects, such as declining enrollments, teacher layoffs, and school closings. The primary components of the plan include: (1) permissive, interdistrict transfers on…