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Download full textDistrict Court, Houston, TX. Southern District of Texas. – 1975
On June 1, 1970 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, entered its Memorandum and Order requiring the Houston Independent School District to operate its schools beginning with the 1970-71 school year under an equi-distant zoning plan. The pairings and rezoning as finally ordered were fully…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Rossell, Christine H.; Crain, Robert L. – 1973
This paper presents a new measure of school desegregation policy output and explores various socioeconomic conditions and political processes associated with the degree of school desegregation in 69 northern cities. Data was collected by a mail questionnaire. The measures of school desegregation policy were computed as follows: The number of black…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Cross Sectional Studies, Multiple Regression Analysis
Jablonsky, Adelaide – 1973
The flood of new programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided fertile grounds for doctoral dissertation research on the education of the disadvantaged. Bits and pieces of research throughout the country are entombed in DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL and university libraries. The ERIC/IRCD…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1986
This examination of parent choice among public schools in Massachusetts begins with an expanded version of remarks made by C. L. Glenn to the Board of the National Education Association describing the parent choice options available in Massachusetts and the ways in which they have developed. Approximately four of five minority students in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Magnet Schools
FRANKEL, EDWARD – 1966
PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT IS AN INTERIM EVALUATION OF A NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM TO TRANSFER NINTH-GRADE PUPILS FROM 38 TRUNCATED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS TO ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOLS. AS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A CITY-WIDE SYSTEM OF 4-YEAR COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS, THE TRANSFER PROGRAM ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS AND TO MOTIVATE THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report describes the events leading up to the desegregation of the public elementary and junior high schools in Syracuse and the effects and implications of the desegregation process. School officials were influenced in favor of school desegregation by the negative results of an extensive compensatory education program at a segregated junior…
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Compensatory Education, Data, De Facto Segregation
Coats, William D.; And Others – 1972
This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Desegregation Effects
Cookson, Peter W., Jr.; Shroff, Sonali M. – 1997
School choice plans have been widely adopted, and most urban areas have a limited choice plan of some sort. This digest presents an overview of different choice strategies by reviewing the experiences of several urban areas. Minnesota has statewide open enrollment for all students, making all public schools throughout the state open to all…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
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
Nakahara, Vernon K. – 1971
What the legal responsibilities are surrounding school integration, and areas of desegregation in which the courts themselves appear to be unsure and confused can be determined by examining the numerous court decisions on problems related to school desegregation. It seems clear that delays under the "all deliberate speed" doctrine, or by other…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
Peer reviewedSmith, Angela G. – Journal of Law and Education, 1995
Explains and analyzes open-enrollment plans, current open-enrollment legislation, and the Omaha (Nebraska) School District's attempt to balance goals of integration and open enrollment. Provides recommendations for educational and legislative reform in the area of public school choice. (198 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Lissitz, Robert W. – 1992
This report summarizes an assessment effort that began in the summer of 1990 and completed its first year in the summer of 1991. It is the initial stage of a longitudinal study that focuses on the academic achievement and attitudes of students in the St. Louis (Missouri) metropolitan court-ordered desegregation program administered by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Data Collection, Desegregation Effects
Dunne, Danielle – 1991
This paper explores issues surrounding parental choice of schools. The administration of President George Bush has presented parental choice as a cornerstone of its proposed "America 2000 Excellence in Education Act." Educational advocates are concerned that emphasis on choice as a key moving force for school reform falls short of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Vouchers
FISHER, JOHN H.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE EVALUATED SUCH EXISTING DESEGREGATION EFFORTS AS OPEN ENROLLMENT, ZONING, THE FREE CHOICE TRANSFER POLICY, FEEDER PATTERN CHANGES, AND PAIRING PROPOSALS. THEY DECIDED THAT DESEGREGATION WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNLESS OTHER MEASURES WERE UNDERTAKEN. RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDED ESTABLISHING COMPREHENSIVE 4-YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS BUILT…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Desegregation Effects, Equal Education, Feeder Patterns
SCHWAB, HERBERT M. – 1964
THE SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTED A COMMITTEE ON RACE AND EDUCATION TO DETERMINE IF PORTLAND SCHOOLS DEPRIVED THE CHILDREN OF ONE RACE THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AFFORDED TO THOSE OF OTHER RACES, WHAT MIGHT BE DONE TO IMPROVE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN CULTURALLY DEPRIVED AREAS OF THE CITY, AND WHAT MIGHT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM DO THROUGH ITS…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, After School Programs, Board of Education Role, Community Resources
