This report misrepresents and then criticizes recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education, a think tank and two independent study groups, each of which recently encouraged particular voluntary efforts to reduce concentrated poverty and achieve racial and socioeconomic integration in schools and housing in Minnesota. In building its…

In a recent ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in "Parents v. Seattle" (Parents Involved, 2007) determined that race cannot be the sole factor in the assignment of children to public schools. The court also identified the conditions which would justify the use of race in assigning children to schools. In this article we (a) provide a…

Public schools are the last hope for an integrated society, and 2-way busing is the last hope for racially balanced schools. (Author)

Presents a review of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on school desegregation (since "Plessy v. Ferguson" in 1896) to assess the law's evolution over the past 100 years. Findings reveal that the Supreme Court has been responsible for both reinforcing the U.S. system of apartheid and for dismantling it. Changes in the law since the Brown…

This essay traces the integration movement, and reports the thought-provoking results from a survey of teachers who were being subjected to racial balancing of faculties and students. (Author)

Discusses the second post-Brown decade, with changes that the period 1964-1974 worked in federal antidiscrimination laws - in extending their reach, in devising new techniques to enforce them, and in interpreting the obligations they impose. (Author/PG)

Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…

Describes judicial actions concerning two recent changes of significance to educational control and finance--the consolidation of urban and suburban school districts, and the busing of elementary pupils away from their neighborhood schools. Explains how the lines of action taken go contrary to well known and well accepted findings of political…

This report provides an overview of the struggle to desegregate schools in the United States. It describes the two phases of desegregation, focusing on court decisions that influenced desegregation and how these decisions changed the composition of the schools. It opens with the 1849 decision that asserted that desegregation was for the good of…

By 1970 the schools of the South were less segregated than were those of the North. This is due largely to the great progress in Southern rural districts. Can the same integration take place in Northern urban school districts? Probes the complexities in attempting such action. (Author/RK)

In 1954, in the "Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka" decision, the United States Supreme Court declared that "to separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in…

This publication offers a brief review of religion and school issues that emerged in U.S. courts in 1999. Included are prayer in public schools; teacher's free exercise rights limited by establishment clause; impermissible student lessons and activities; teaching of evolution/creation science; volunteer clergy counselors in the schools; aid to…

Provides background on Shelby State Community College's (SSCC's) involvement in a Tennessee desegregation case, "Saunders v Ellington," and points to the errors that resulted in and the problems that resulted from the ruling which enjoined SSCC from building a suburban campus until the inner-city campus was completed. (AYC)

This report discusses the current school busing crisis, examines the history of busing, and looks into the future of busing. In discussing the current crisis the authors examine recent court cases mandating busing to achieve desegregation. They go back into history to trace the tradition of busing, to obtain facts and figures, and to look at past…

This booklet records the opinion of the Supreme Court in this case, as well as one of the dissenting opinions. The Court upheld the charges brought by students of the Dayton, Ohio, school system that the Dayton Board of Education, the State Board of Education, and various local and State officials were operating a racially segregated school system…