On February 22, 1973, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Atlanta Board of Education filed a compromise desegregation plan with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. If the Court approves, this compromise will constitute the final desegregation plan for the Atlanta Public Schools under court cases of Calhoun v. Cook. However, the case will remain open for two reasons: (1) provisions of the settlement require monitoring of the school system's compliance with the terms of the compromise for the next three years; and (2) certain aspects of the case were consolidated with the metropolitan school desegregation suit (Armour v. Nix), which requests a desegregation plan that will include all students in the nine metropolitan Atlanta area school systems. This case is still pending in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, awaiting action by the U.S. Supreme Court in a similar case involving the metropolitan Richmond, Virginia schools. The compromise plan would increase the number of students in desegregated schools in Atlanta from 27,239 to 38,718. Under this plan, approximately 59,000 students, virtually all black, will remain in segregated schools. The plan would increase the number of desegregated schools in Atlanta from 47 to 64. The other 83 schools in the system would be segregated black. (Author/JM)