In 1966, the Michigan State Board of Education and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission adopted a Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Education Opportunity. As part of this policy statement's implementation, the State Board of Education requested a school racial census, which was taken in the spring of 1967. Data collected on the racial…

The Michigan Department of Education conducted a school racial census in the fall of 1968. Information was obtained about the racial composition of student bodies and staff by school buildings in both public and nonpublic schools. The 1968-69 school racial census was based on questionnaires returned from 4,538 individual schools which employed…

As a result of the State Board of Education and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission's Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Educational Opportunity, a school racial-ethnic census of Michigan public schools was initiated. The purposes of this census were to: (1) assist in the attainment of equality of educational opportunity without discrimination…

As part of the implementation of the Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Educational Opportunity, Michigan's State Board of Education conducted its first public school racial census in the spring of 1967. Information was collected about the racial composition of: (1) student bodies and staff by school building and (2) central office staffs of…