In view of the fact that the issue of the transportation of pupils in the public school for purposes of desegregation has now become politically and emotionally charged, the Metropolitan Applied Research Center staff decided to collect and analyze the facts on the extent, the nature, and the consequences of transportation of children to schools in the United States. This book is the result of an intensive examination of available studies, articles, and press reports on busing throughout the United States. It attempts to distill the more pertinent facts on busing, and seeks to present these facts so that readers can determine the validity of the arguments offered by those who would seek to prohibit the transportation of children for purposes of public school desegregation. These facts lead to the conclusion that all proposed legislation or constitutional amendments addressed specifically to the prohibition of transportation for purposes of desegregation of schools would be racially restrictive legislation. These facts also strongly suggest that specific prohibition of transportation of children for purposes of school desegregation would be violative of the letter and the spirit of the Equal Prgection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and would neutralize any further effect of the Brown decision of 1954. (Author/JM)