PRESENTED IS A REPORT ON WHAT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND 15 OTHER CITIES HAVING MORE THAN A 300,000 POPULATION ARE DOING WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF BUS TRANSPORTATION IN RELIEVING OVERCROWDEDNESS RELATIVE TO THE PROCESS OF DESEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE REPORT CONTAINS FOUR SECTIONS--(1) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PROBLEM OF BUS…

Efforts to break down de facto school segregation, which usually reflects residential patterns, often involve busing some students to schools outside their neighborhoods. Although busing has decreased segregation, it has sometimes created problems of its own. Transportation administrators, interviewed in Riverside, Sacramento, Berkeley, Los…

How the Federal Government assesses desegregation plans and decides whether or not to extend financial aid to these plans. (JF)

Excerpts from the California Supreme Court decision on the right of the San Francisco School Board to effectuate a limited desegregation plan embracing the Park South school complex. (RJ)

This investigation reveals that the attitudes of this group do not differ greatly from those of the general public. (Author/DN)

The conventional explanation for adult white opposition to busing for school desegregation emphasizes a rational, objective self interested component. Whites are seen as opposing busing because its costs far exceed its benefits. However, little of the social psychological literature supports this view. Studies by and large support the findings…

This bulletin gives some of the results of an attitude survey on school desegregation in Riverside and Redlands, California. Children and parents were questioned. The results indicate that parents and students in Riverside reacted very positively to three years of integrated education. Anglo parents felt that their children were not having more…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 15 annotations of documents and journal articles on busing for school desegregation, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on the controversy surrounding busing, federal policy, the legal aspects of busing, research on its effects, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

Reviews current legal principles connected with school desegregation up to the metropolitonization'' controversies being litigated in Detroit and Richmond. (Author)

The counselor must be aware of the effects of busing as well as the psychosocial milieu of both his school and the diverse communities which feed it, if he intends to address himself to the needs of all of his students. (Author)

Presents an implicit enumeration algorithm for redrawing school attendance boundaries in order to meet integration requirements. The basis of the approach is the division of the city into smaller areas or zones corresponding to neighborhoods. (Author)

This article analyzes some of the arguments against busing and advocates that busing be implemented even though it has significant limitations as a vehicle for desegregation. (DM)