Enrollment trends related to desegregation programs in Seattle, Washington were charted, and parents were surveyed in 1978 on their enrollment plans, educational priorities, and opinions of school district policy. Trends in ethnic composition of schools indicated that voluntary or magnet programs have contributed to reductions in racial imbalance,…

This paper traces the history of a magnet school which opened in 1975 amid claims that it would serve as a model of high quality integrated education but which, three years later, was widely perceived as an overcrowded, predominantly black institution. The local Board of Education decided to open a magnet school in which new teaching techniques…

The Monitoring Commission for Desegregation Implementation in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools formally responded to the 1990-91 Chicago Board of Education's Desegregation Review on Student Assignment. That Board report presented data on the contribution of various student assignment procedures to the voluntary desegregation of the schools.…