Notes that among the most hopeful developments for school desegregation are the three plans proposed and approved by the Chicago Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education: a faculty integration plan, a student permission transfer plan, and a developing plan for a City-Wide Advisory Committee on School Desegregation. (Author/AM)

This paper presents the Chicago Urban League's (CUL) proposal for desegregating Chicago's public schools, developed in response to the demands of the State Board of Education and to local resistance against integration requirements. The CUL plan is based upon revisions of administrative sub-districts,and allows for a variety of racial compositions…

The Chicago Board of Education has been attempting to formulate a school desegregation plan to satisfy the U.S. Department of Education (HEW) guidelines for a decade. Public hearings and community participation are to be an integral part of the planning process. To determine the community's attitudes toward school desegregation, over one thousand…

This document includes statements of the position of the Chicago Urban Leugue (CUL) on eight issues pertaining to the desegregation of the Chicago Public Schools. In the introduction, "The General Purposes and Goals for a Desegregation Plan," the CUL states its support for the racial integration of students, including some mandatory…

This paper constitutes the Chicago Urban League's criticism of "Access to Excellence," the voluntary school desegregation plan proposed by the Chicago Board of Education. It is held that the plan will probably do more harm than good toward the desegregation of Chicago Public Schools. The Urban League claims that "Access to…

Considers the state of the urban public education system in Chicago (Illinois). Addresses the effects of demographic and economic changes, the role of Benjamin Coppage Willis as superintendent of the Chicago schools, and the effects of inequality and plans for desegregation. (CMK)

This is a report on the progress (or lack of such) in the desegregation of Chicago's public schools through June, 1979. An addendum includes supplementary information through September, 1979. The history of school and social segregation in Chicago is reviewed, a chronology of the school desegregation controversy since 1961 is provided, and present…

The contents of this anthology of essays on school desegregation focus on such topics as racial balance and quality education, school desegregation as a synonym for racial equality, failure of academic research to be useful, James S. Coleman's desegregation research and policy recommendations, busing plans and how they work, white against white in…

The significance of continuing segregation in Chicago's public schools is discussed in this report. The failure of the "Access to Excellence" program to achieve voluntary school integration in spite of magnet programs and permissive transfers is described. The question of white flight is examined in light of the belief that mandatory…