This report examines the status of school desegregation in the St. Louis, Missouri, public schools as of February 1981, and weighs the problems associated with court ordered versus voluntary desegregation. It is proposed that the city of St. Louis might still avoid a lengthy court battle over desegregation if the following steps are followed to…

The author uses the experience of the Ferguson (St. Louis County, Missouri) school district to raise questions about the implications of an apparently successful attempt to eliminate the distinction between "de facto" and "de jure" desegregation. Growing out of litigation begun in 1972, the U.S. District Court in 1975 ordered…

In addition to collecting and analyzing information about progress on desegregation plan implementation, each of the court ordered citizens groups mentioned functions as a "third party" between the defendants (state education departments and local school officials) and the plaintiffs, and among school employees, students, parents, the…

This bulletin contains four articles, each by a different author, that present different aspects of the legal questions surrounding school desegregation. The articles begin with a background summary of the important decisions that have led to the present position of the courts, by Roy E. Chapman. Next, J. Harold Flannery discusses implications…

For the hundreds of thousands of minority children contained in the urban schools of the nation by de jure policies and practices, the promise of Brown vs. the Board of Education will prove empty and illusory, unless the problems of metropolitan-wide, interdistrict desegregation are met. (Author/AM)

Proposes that the courts order school authorities to cut programs as necessary to fund desegregation rather than order a tax that has been prohibited in the state or locale. Available from Michigan Law Review, Hutchins Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. (Author/IRT)

In this statement, the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division under the Reagan Administration proposes a method of voluntary school desegregation as an alternative to court litigation and mandatory busing. The method represents a response to the failure of previous desegregation attempts to elicit public support and provide equal…

School desegregation in Cleveland, Ohio, has shown that: (1) school improvements are more difficult to accomplish than biracial reassignment of students; and (2) school systems less responsive to desegregation mandates will receive more court orders. Issues for Cleveland's future include diminished court supervision, school system reorganizaton,…

This note analyzes the problem of determining when federal district courts should relinquish jurisdiction over desegregating local school boards. Both the causal and attitudinal principles are examined. Available from the Business Manager, Southern California Law Reivew, Law Center, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles,…

Examines the growth of equitable relief in school desegregation cases and the impact of the Supreme Court's doctrine delimiting the role of lower federal courts when they exercise equity jurisdiction in civil rights cases. Available from Business Manager, University of Dayton Law Review, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469. (Author/IRT)

This volume examines ten communities with histories of lengthy desegregation litigation in order to gain insight into the perceived legal adequacy and practical effectiveness of various desegregation strategies from the point of view of the Federal courts. A conceptual model of the judicial review of desegregation plans is given in diagram form…

This essay attempts to assist the educational administrator with race relations problems. By tracing the legal implications, judicial support for school desegregation is placed in perspective. Potential financial incentives for communities desegregating their school system are then discussed. Illustrations of communities' transportation and school…

Presents a partial transcript of a Congressional committee hearing at which Representative Bobbi Fiedler of California testified in favor of voluntary desegregation methods rather than mandatory busing in order to implement the goals of school desegregation and equal education in Los Angeles, California. (MJL)

This interim report about the court's order for voluntary, interdistrict desegregation in the St. Louis, Missouri public schools was filed by the Desegregation Monitoring and Advisory Committee. The report discusses the problems of defining the relationship between "voluntary" and "mandatory," and developing alternative…

Presented here are the remarks of William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division at the Education Commission of the States National Project on Desegregation Strategies' Workshop. Reynolds states that mandatory busing and other remedial techniques to achieve racial balance in schools (measures tentatively sanctioned by…