The significance, purpose, and undercurrents of the Detroit school desegregation case "Bradley v. Milliken" are examined in a look at the 19-year history of Detroit's court-ordered desegregation plan. At present, school desegregation does not appear to be a priority in Detroit. (SLD)

This part of the Third Monitoring Report on the progress of desegregation in the Boston Public Schools covers activities for the period from December 1983 through May 1984. First, the Boston School Superintendent's response is presented to challenges made after previous reports showed little progress in staffing, facilities, bilingual education,…

This book presents case studies describing the role of the courts and legislation in seven school desegregation cases. In addition to the studies of individual litigation, there are essays on the role of the professional educator in desegregation cases and the plaintiff client counsel relationship. A historical review of the desegregation of the…

In Milliken the Court has held that desegregation stops just short of the school district line. To require that school districts be merged to effect a racial balance, one of two factors must exist: a showing that the school district lines have been deliberately drawn to separate the races, and evidence that discriminatory acts in one district…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1972 on a case involving changes in boundaries of a county school district in Virginia which had been operated as a dual school system. Two weeks after a federal district Court ordered a school-pairing plan, the Emporia City Council announced that city's intention to operate an independent school system. The…

This article focuses upon Federal law in relation to school desegregation. The groundwork for many of the relatively recent legal developments in Northern school desegregation law had been laid more than a decade ago. Because the Southern cases were absorbing black organizational resources and preoccupying the federal authorities, and because…

The human drama in beginning St. Louis's desegregation plan is presented. As the chair of a citizen's committee, the author worked with the superintendent and the Board of Education to create a plan. Implementation was accomplished in a few months. The desegregation of suburban districts was settled in court. (VM)

Describes the Louisiana Consent Decree, a federally imposed program to correct racial segregation and gross resource distribution inequities in the state's system of higher education institutions. Focuses on the following: (1) governance; (2) faculty development; (3) cooperative programs; (4) enhancement of Black institutions; and (5) monitoring…

In Los Angeles, where Anglos are a relatively small and declining minority, where Hispanics are becoming the majority, and where projections show more Black than Anglo students within a few years, desegregation is only feasible within a metropolitan context. (CMG)

This description of the accomplishments and shortcomings of one school desegregation plan provides insights into much broader dialogue on the role of race in America. St. Louis (Missouri) and its suburbs demographically resemble many midsized contemporary metropolitan areas in the United States. What makes St. Louis unique is an urban-suburban…

Describes the situation created by busing in Milwaukee's public schools. The rise of support for school choice developed out of the failure of busing, which was Milwaukee's solution to school problems. Wisconsin now has a private-school voucher law. Busing has been less onerous since the city was divided into five zones from which parents of…

This report comprises papers delivered at a conference assessing the impact of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 30 years after it was passed in 1954. The following papers (and authors) are included: (1) "Reflections on Brown after Thirty Years" (Linda Brown Smith); (2) "School Integration and the…

The first part of this paper discusses the events leading up to the federal district court's May 18, 1980 decision in "Kelley et al. vs. Metropolitan County Board of Education of Nashville." The decision rejected a Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee, school board's rezoning plan and called for an end to busing in grades 1 through 4 and…

Progress made during 1984-85 in the implementation of a student transfer desegregation plan in St. Louis, Missouri, and surrounding counties, is described and evaluated in this report. Focus is on the activities of the two bodies which assumed responsibility for administering the plan, the Voluntary Interdistrict Coordinating Council (VICC) and…

The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…