Outlines a sample contract that a district might want to use if its buses are required for emergency use by local government. The contract addresses such areas as who drives, whether regular school bus regulations are observed, who pays for the fuel, and what the costs are to the user. (IRT)

Describes the arrangements that allowed the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee to hire school buses to rescue the transportation system at the winter games in Lake Placid (New York). (IRT)

The text of a statement dealing with racial discrimination in higher education, given by Mr. Mitchell, Director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), before the special subcommittee on education of the House Committee on Education and Labor, September 25, 1974, Washington, D.C. (EH)

Results of a survey of selected school districts. (JF)

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

A school bus driver tells how she and the mentally handicapped students she transports worked together to transform their ride into a time for learning self-help, social and academic skills. (LH)

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)

Sets forth the many factors involved in deciding whether to purchase, lease, or contract for transportation scheduling services. Describes how one school district solved the problem. (Author/MLF)

Discusses such aspects of transportation as insurance costs, equipment, and driver/attendant training. (IRT)

The observational study examined the frequency and severity of misbehaviors of 98 behaviorally disordered adolescents on both mainstreamed and categorical bus transportation arrangements. Data indicated a dramatic increase in frequency and severity of misbehavior during the period of categorical transportation with a parallel increase in the…