Presents an overview of recent desegregation litigation. Focuses on cases concerning the scope of judicial authority to order interdistrict remedies; responsibility for financing desegregation efforts; and alternatives to busing. Reports that although negotiated settlements are now being reached more frequently, the end of judicial monitoring is…

Provides an overview of Milwaukee's school desegregation plan and focuses on four areas said to involve inequities: attendance area differentials, segregated schools, suspension rates, and specialty schools. Argues that the Milwaukee Plan, although successful in many ways, has failed to provide important educational opportunities for all Black…

This paper presents a set of new ideas which support the value of school desegregation in the United States. First, school desegregation efforts have been almost universally effective, no matter what implementation strategy was employed. Even busing, although widely criticized, has been effective. Second, desegregation efforts have usually…