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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Singer, Jeremy; Stokes, Kimberly; Mahowald, James Bear; Khawaja, Sahar – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
This essay combines an ecological perspective with a mobility justice theoretical framework to reconceptualize the relationship between school transportation and educational access. Authors Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Kimberly Stokes, James Bear Mahowald, and Sahar Khawaja document the problem of "getting to school" that is at…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Social Justice, Access to Education
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Gross, Bethany – Education Next, 2019
In 2017, Matthew Chingos and Kristin Blagg of the Urban Institute convened a group of researchers to analyze students' school choices and travel to school in five cities-- Denver, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C.--where families are able to select from among many charter and district schools. The team found that a large number…
Descriptors: School Choice, Student Transportation, Urban Schools, Equal Education
Degrow, Ben – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2019
In Michigan's lower-income urban communities, where educational options are most heavily in demand, accessing the most suitable and desired schools is often limited by the availability and affordability of convenient transportation. Michigan could support low-income families' efforts to transport their children to better schools and boost these…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Access to Education, Family Programs, School Choice
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1974
This pamphlet is the complete United States Supreme Court opinion, together with concurring and dissenting opinions, on the Detroit metropolitan area school integration case. The United States District Court in the case had found that the Detroit Board of Education had created and perpetuated school segregation in Detroit. To remedy this…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans
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Pindur, Wolfgang – Education, 1976
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, School Desegregation, School Districts
Jones, Nathaniel R. – 1977
This paper reviews school desegregation issues since the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley case. The Milliken decision ruled that crossing of school district lines for desegregation was not permissible. Dissenters from this ruling predicted that the effects of the decision would be an acceleration of the national trend toward residential, political and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Elementary Secondary Education, Ghettos
Green, Robert L. – 1974
Educational, legal, and political issues affect Northern school desegregation. The United States has failed to meet the challenge of developing a multiracial society in which minority group members are a significant part of the machinery of the national life. Two separate societies, one black and one white, are a reality both educationally and…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Blacks, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Beck, William W.; And Others – 1978
These papers examine sociological and political problems associated with school desegregation on the local level in Dallas, Boston, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Each presentation addresses several of the following concerns: (1) community and school composition, racial and ethnic ratios, and business and political…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Detroit Board of Education, MI. Citizens Advisory Committee on Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1962
THIS 1962 REPORT CONTAINS THE FINDINGS OF A 2-YEAR ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN THE DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ALTHOUGH FACTORS ARE EXAMINED WHICH AFFECT THE EDUCATION OF ALL PUPILS, THE REPORT PARTICULARLY FOCUSES ON RACE RELATIONS, DISCRIMINATION, AND THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH. SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Bus Transportation, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth