WHITE PLAINS'S SCHOOL RACIAL BALANCE PLAN, IMPLEMENTED IN 1964 IN A CITY DISTRICT OF 8700 PUPILS, 17 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE NEGRO, IS STATISTICALLY ANALYZED AND EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. TO ASSESS CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES FROM WHITE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS WHO WERE IN THE THIRD GRADE OF THE INTEGRATED RECEIVING SCHOOLS…

THIS REPORT FURNISHES AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLICIES OF THE PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON RACIAL INTEGRATION AND EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE ARE DETAILED, AND SPECIAL PROBLEM AREAS ARE IDENTIFIED. COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, EVEN IF IT IMPLIES DELAYED INTEGRATION IN SOME INSTANCES, IS SEEN AS THE…

This paper examines community responses to court-ordered desegregation in Louisville, Boston, Denver, and Dallas. Background information is provided on the implementation of desegregation, court decisions affecting desegregation, reactions to desegregation and busing, and the influence of social structures, political traditions, and prevailing…

The initial black community response to the desegregation plan submitted by the School Department is contained in this document. The principal purpose is to make clear to the court that in evaluating this plan, or any other, improvements in the quality of schooling is sought. Efforts to rid the Boston schools of discriminatory pupil placement are…

The Hillsborough County School District is recognized as the nation's most successfully desegregated metropolitan school district in the United States. Basic statistics show that the pupil population has grown to 115,000; pupil and faculty composition is approximately 80% white and 20% black; 56,000 pupils are transported daily, 25,000 for…

This volume contains 20 conference speeches that cover a wide spectrum of legal issues and professional problems, such as (1) the rights of nontenured teachers to due process in nonrenewal cases; (2) the legal ramifications of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972; (3) the authority of Congress to limit the jurisdiction of federal courts;…

The five chapters of this summary report cover (1) the state of education in New York State, (2) financing education and Federal aid (two chapters), (3) racial and ethnic integration, and (4) aid to nonpublic schools. The report urges full State funding for education with the assistance of Federal aid to assure equal educational opportunity.…

This paper focuses on the political nature of the present busing controversy. It is felt that the proposed moratorium on busing threatens gains which have been made in previous years through institutional and judicial enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in providing equal educational opportunities to all children. The advantages and disadvantages…

THIS SUMMARY AND EVALUATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I PROJECT IN BERKELEY, CALIF., DESCRIBES COMPENSATORY ACTIVITIES IN FOUR TARGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TRACKS IN CORRECTIVE READING PROGRAMS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS. THE OBJECTIVES IN THE TARGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WERE TO RAISE EDUCATIONAL…

Examined in this report are problems connected with school desegregation. Particular attention is given to the fact that, while many rural schools have been successfully desegregated in the past decade, the majority of blacks and Hispanics who live in large cities remain in racially isolated schools. Causes and feasibility of metropolitan school…

This report focuses on six issues having a direct impact on school desegregation in Ohio: (1) State authority to eliminate segregation; (2) desegregation programs within school districts; (3) desegregation plans between school districts; (4) citizen participation; (5) transportation; and (6) housing. The Committee's findings in each of these areas…

This supplementary report on Project Concern, an educational intervention program in Hartford, Connecticut, which buses inner city minority group children to suburban schools, deals with the nonacademic aspects of the experiment. Described briefly is the typical low socioeconomic background of the elementary school children. The reaction of the…

This report presents the preliminary findings of a research project designed to investigate the ways local school systems in the North deal with de facto school segregation. The communities chosen for the investigation are those 95 cities in the Permanent Community Sample of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) which are non-Southern and…

This is the report of a five-year plan to reorganize the Harrisburg public schools, designed to achieve the goals of educational excellence, racial balance, equity, stability, and economy if properly implemented. For example, the plan includes special centers from pre-kindergarten through second grade, and an educational plaza for grades 6 through…

This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…