The results of a survey conducted on superintendents and principals from eleven southern states are presented in this paper. These educators were asked questions related to time of desegregation, conditions under which desegregation took place, and size of school district. Results indicate that the majority of school districts in the sample…

June 1975 marks the end of the fourth year of court-ordered busing for desegregation of the Pontiac Public schools. At the end of each year of busing, a survey of parents of students in the affected grades is conducted with the purpose of assessing parental attitudes about the busing plan, their perceptions of their children's education, and for…

This document contains three reports dealing with popular misconceptions about school desegregation. The papers deal with quality education, educator attitudes, and white flight. The first paper focuses on the following questions: (1) How does desegregation affect academic achievement? (2) What is the effect of desegregation on the minority…

Part of a series of parent and teacher surveys, this portion of the 1975 survey provides information on the attitudes of teachers of elementary and secondary grades toward the desegregation plan and their perceptions of some of the effects that the plan has had upon children in the Pontiac schools; and information on the attitudes of the teachers…