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Download full textFriedman, Lorraine; Poscarinis, Maria, Ed. – 1991
This report reviews and analyzes programs to educate homeless children and youth. A look at the national perspective describes the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, its passage and content. The paper argues that the Department of Education, charged with implementing the Act, failed to do so. Delays, inadequate monitoring, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, Bus Transportation, Children
Friedman, Lorraine; Stamen, Justine – 1990
A study was done of homeless children and their access to education in District of Columbia Public Schools and of implementation of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act in that school district. A review of District of Columbia proposals for programing and for funding, interviews with school and city officials, and interviews with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance Patterns, Bus Transportation, Children
Scharf, M. P. – 1983
A 1981-82 compilation of population and school statistics from Saskatchewan provides information on the context of rural education in that province. Between 1901 and 1981 the population fluctuated, reaching a high of 991,000 estimated population in 1982. Saskatchewan schools experienced a 19.6% decline in total enrollment from 1971 to 1981, and a…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Coping
JONSSON, HAROLD A. – 1966
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…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Bus Transportation
Rashman, Mary – 1979
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…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Magnet Schools
Ohio State General Assembly, Columbus. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Bus Transportation, Busing, Citizen Participation
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
The final technical report summarizes the development, operations, and effectiveness of Project Concern, Hartford's program of suburban school placement for inner-city children. This approach to educational improvement through busing disadvantaged students to neighboring towns was funded in part by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Kirby, David J.; And Others – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Blacks, Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Community Action
Fogel, Barbara R., Ed. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Development, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Coats, William D.; And Others – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Desegregation Effects
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1970
This document is the text of the brief for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, October 1970. The statement of the motion to file brief is followed by the brief and argument comprising (1) the present state of the law; (2) the "root and branch" of the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Bus Transportation, Community Schools, Court Litigation
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
This booklet is issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in the Commission's hope that it can help "separate fact from fiction and dispel many of the unfounded fears that underlie the controversy so troubling the nation." The first section discusses the history and background of busing, showing that busing is a long established and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Bus Transportation, Educational Finance
Canipe, Stephen L. – 1979
This paper offers a general perspective of school energy use based on national surveys and a state of North Carolina perspective based on the public school laws that can have energy impact. Data from two surveys conducted in 1972-73 and 1974-75 are analyzed. Findings show a shift away from oil and a shift from direct use of coal to use of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Cost Effectiveness, Differences, Educational Facilities Improvement
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS EVALUATION OF THE SECOND YEAR OF THE FREE CHOICE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM (OE) IN NEW YORK CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRESENTS COMPARATIVE DATA FOR 26 RECEIVING AND 15 SENDING ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. THE AREAS STUDIED WERE (1) CHILDRENS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (2) TEACHERS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (3) SCHOOL APPEARANCE, CLIMATE, AND…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools, Evaluation Methods
