Discusses the Pontiac, Michigan public schools, which have been desegregated by federal court order since September 1971, noting that since the court order requires classroom, faculty, and administrative ratios to reflect the community, policy formation has been shared to some extent, and many more opportunities to make equal status contacts among…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, cites a study done in 1965 of the junior high schools of Brooklyn in which it was demonstrated that this segment of the system could be desegregated without a great amount of dislocation. (Author/JM)

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…

Through a reexamination of the information collected by two previous studies, this study looked at the role of administrators in desegregating the two school districts observed. Information came from inschool observations and interviews with teachers, principals, and district officials. The findings of the study consist of summaries of the…

This paper presents a case analysis of the role of the Los Angeles School Monitoring Committee in the implementation of school desegregation. The analysis provides information about how citizens' monitoring committees (CMCs) work in the desegregated setting, along with the challenges, problems and opportunities they are likely to face. The paper…

This study attempted to treat the information gap in baseline data by projecting the total enrollments of six of the original "Adams" states (Georgia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania) and four "non-Adams" states (Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama). The report is divided into six…

THIS REPORT PROVIDES ANSWERS TO A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS REGARDING FEDERAL SCHOOL DESEGREGATION POLICY UNDER TITLE VI OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. IT PRESENTS THE "REVISED STATEMENT OF POLICIES FOR SCHOOL DESEGREGATION PLANS," WHICH WAS ISSUED IN MARCH 1966 BY THE U. S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION. THE STATEMENT SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBES THE…

Wichita, Kansas maintained a dual black and white school system from 1906 to 1952. Segregation continued, however, between 1952 and 1971. The board of education appointed a blue-ribbon, low economic area problems committee which made recommendations for desegregation of the schools along both racial and socioeconomic lines. Recommendations for…

This is a report on school desegregation in Corpus Christi, Texas. It discusses in depth the historical and legal basis for school desegregation in Corpus Christi with respect to the litigative processes underlying the issue of school desegregation. This report carefully describes the events leading up to the landmark Cisneros v. Corpus Christi…

This recital of the status of the several components of the Florida Plan for Equalizing Educational Opportunity in Public Higher Education is descriptive of some of its developments to about March 1975. The plan projected its greatest impact on desegregation as occuring within the first two years of its five-year course, but with the continuing…

ERIC abstracts on the impact of racial issues on educational administration are compiled that were announced in RIE through November 1969. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "racial integration,""school integration,""integration methods,""integration plans,""racial balance," and "racially balanced schools." The following…

Participants consisted of thirteen teams of teachers, administrators, and supervisors from ten school districts of the West: fifty-six in all, from several cities and suburban areas that presented de facto segregation. Large and small group discussions, evening sessions, library work, tape recordings, and films were utilized by the participants.…

In order to ascertain that integration of minority group persons has been and is being taken care of by its institutions, the Regents of the University of the State of New York prepared the present statement of policy and proposed action. Further, the Regents request in this document that each institution of postsecondary education in the State…

The fourth year of federal court desegregation (1977-78) promised stability and continuity to the Boston public schools. Instead it brought confusion, frustration and anger, although there have been no serious disruptions inside the schools for the first time since desegregation began in 1974. (Author/AM)

An important component of the school desegregation methods of Lansing, Michigan, was the Cluster Plan, which is described and evaluated in this article. (Author/AM)