While the yellow school bus is emblematic of American education, there is variation in bus service across the country. Millions of students rely on the bus, making transportation an essential part of a student's educational experience. Thus, equity in transportation access is a key component of educational equity. Using national district-level…

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…

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…

In 2018 the Rhode Island (RI) Regulations Governing the Education of Children with Disabilities were revised to comply with the 2016 amendments to the RI Administrative Procedures Act. In this process members of the community requested that the RI Department of Education develop a companion document that maintained the relevant sections of the…

Contends that President Nixon's program for busing for the most part addresses the courts and not the problem of busing itself. (RJ)

For the first time since the Emancipation Proclamation, the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government are seriously entertaining action to limit the rights of racial minorities to unqualified equality of opportunity. (DM)

A documentation of racism in Boston and New England schools from colonial times to the present, coupled with a plea for black people to continue their struggle against white supremacy and for educational equality. (EH)

Asserts that it seems illusory that much progress can be made toward achieving a truly integrated society unless some way is found to attract the missled class--both black and white--back into the urban public schools across the nation. Available from Nation Associates, Inc., 333 Sixth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10014. (Author/RJ)

Loss of student freedom is one of the dangers to the structure of U.S. education as posed by the policy of racial integration by busing.'' (Editor/SP)

If Congress and the President try to get school districts to fight the reality to which the courts have been reacting, then the courts will be able to say they are faced with a new reality which no longer calls for the old remedies. (DM)

The criticisms of busing cannot be answered by refusing the Federal support needed to make school desegregation successful, or by failing to support enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment. (DM)

In an interview with the editor of HSJ, Dr. James S. Coleman discusses changes in the values, attitudes, and beliefs of adolescents since the late 1950s. He also discusses the report he authored, the Coleman Report of 1966; court legislation; busing and its effect on achievement; and educational research. (KC)

The purpose of this article is to provide some observations and suggestions for school boards finding themselves currently in the process of desegregating their school systems, or possibly having to desegregate in the future. (Author/EB)

Describes two Federal court cases affecting school finance. Discusses Texas' extensive accountability network program. (JF)