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Bolner, James; Shanley, Robert – 1974
Chapter one examines the constitutional context of the busing issue and focuses on the way courts have dealt with the problem. Attention is divided between the United States Supreme Court's rulings and the work of the lower courts. When courts have required busing for desegregation there has almost inevitably been considerable public opposition.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Peer reviewedPettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1972
A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Program Evaluation
Fogel, Barbara – Educate, 1971
A reprint of material originally prepared as a staff memorandum for the Center for Urban Education, summarizing the results of a search of the literature on the bus transportation of students. (JM)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Students, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Methods
Peer reviewedSamuels, Joseph M. – Integrated Education, 1972
Reports a study comparing the effectiveness of projects representative of compensatory, busing, and non-compensatory programs for inner-city students. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBlumenberg, Eleanor – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1973
Argues both that there is no evidence to suggest that we abandon our long-time commitment to quality integrated education; and that we must oppose vigorously those national and local forces attempting to deprive local school districts of one important desegregation technique--transportation. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Change
Peer reviewedWeinberg, Meyer – Integrated Education, 1972
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Peer reviewedRice, Constance – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1977
Seattle's voluntary desegregation plans have included a voluntary racial transfer program, a plan to improve middle schools in the central area, and a magnet school program. Their ineffectiveness has led civil rights organizations to complain to the federal government. Community sentiment against court-ordered desegregation revolves around the…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Role, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Download full textTurner, W. E.; And Others – 1972
The sixth full year of Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act programs in Wichita, Kansas has just been completed. As in previous years, the major thrust of Title I or Project SPEEDY (Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth) has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Educational Resources, Private Schools
Smedley, T. A. – Race Relations Reporter, 1973
Reviews the activity of the Supreme Court and of a number of lower federal courts encouraged by the attitude expressed by the Supreme Court in the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case; and the various forms of opposition to busing. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Constitutional History, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Helms, Lelia – 1970
This report is based on results from a panel study of residents of Penfield, N.Y., a community instituting a suburban-urban transfer with the City School District of Rochester in September 1968. Two interviews were conducted in September 1968 and in June 1969 with the same respondents: a random sample of district resident, a random sample of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Support, Desegregation Methods, Parent Attitudes
ENGLISH, JAMES F., JR.; JUDD, HARLAN C. – 1967
RECOGNIZING THEIR FINANCIAL STAKE IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY, HARTFORD BUSINESS LEADERS THROUGH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO REMEDY THE SOCIAL ILLS ENDEMIC TO THE CENTRAL AREAS OF THE CITY. SOME OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE RESULTED FROM A GROWING EXODUS OF WHITE PERSONS FROM CITY TO SUBURBAN AREAS AND A…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Business Responsibility, Community Cooperation, Community Leaders
Hartford City Board of Education, CT. – 1967
THE BACKGROUND AND PRESENT STATUS OF PROJECT CONCERN, A 2-YEAR DESEGREGATION PROJECT IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT. ABOUT 260 MINORITY GROUP PUPILS FROM EIGHT INNER-CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE BEING BUSED TO SCHOOLS IN FIVE OUTLYING SUBURBAN AREAS. STATE AND LOCAL TAX MONIES, PRIVATE FOUNDATION FUNDS, AND A FEDERAL GRANT…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
MORRELL, KEN – 1968
THE STEPS TAKEN TO DESEGREGATE THE OAK RIDGE, TENN., SCHOOLS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE. ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SEGREGATED BECAUSE OF RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS, WAS CLOSED AND ITS STUDENTS REDISTRIBUTED AMONG OTHER SCHOOLS IN THE CITY. UNDER THE INITIATIVE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, THIS PLAN WENT INTO EFFECT IN THE FALL OF 1967 AND IS SAID TO HAVE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation, Data
Anker, Irving – 1974
Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Ethnic Distribution
Portland Public Schools, OR. – 1968
This report bears on the status of a program for nine Portland elementary schools comprising "Area II" (Model Schools) which were selected to receive additional assistance directed at helping underachieving children to greater school success. The following are dealt with: enrollment statistics; the school program; staffing; progress and…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Facilities, Elementary Schools, Enrollment
