PRIOR TO 1965, A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF OHIO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF THOSE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS LIVING WITHIN ITS OWN BOUNDARIES. NEW LEGISLATION THAT YEAR LEGALIZED THE SPENDING OF TAX MONIES FOR TRANSPORTING PUPILS ATTENDING NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND SERVED AS A MANDATE FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, REQUIRING THE…

A successful energy management program in a single school or a school district requires an energy audit or survey. The audit identifies how much energy is being consumed, as well as where it is going. Furthermore, it shows opportunities for energy conservation. The walk-through energy conservation survey is the method that has the best prospect…

In this issue two of the articles are devoted to criticisms of compensatory education as an educational approach. Doxey A. Wilkerson feels that "make up" efforts "do not serve to realize that academic potential" of poverty children. Roger A. Freeman states that the recent enormous economic investment in educational improvement…

Lane Transit District (LTD) sponsored three surveys in an attempt to understand the needs of physically handicapped and elderly persons and to recommend appropriate operational and physical changes within the system to meet these needs. The secondary intent of the study was to bring about public awareness of the mobility problems of the physically…

The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…

Presented are 11 technical papers, position statements and instructional programs on the severely handicapped. Included are the following titles: "A Public School Program for Severely and Profoundly Handicapped Students: Zero Exclusion,""Components of Instructional Programs for Severely Handicapped Students,""Procedures of…

This study reports the evaluation of the effects of a mandated busing program which integrated the student body in a K-8 suburban school district. A two phase, three year study gathered evaluation data on achievement, classroom instruction, student and staff attitudes, perceived classroom environments, and student behavior incidents. Evaluation…

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…

Volume 17 of the 10-volume Highway Safety Program Manual (which provides guidance to State and local governments on preferred highway safety practices) focuses on pupil transportation safety. The purpose and objectives of a pupil transportation safety program are outlined. Federal authority in the area of pupil transportation and policies…

Operation Hospitality was a program started 4 years ago to bus children from all black inner city parochial schools to all white parochial schools, largely suburban. The first phase of an overall evaluation of the program involved the attitudes of the participating student populations. The second aspect of evaluation which was planned involved an…

These hearings on school busing are comprised of the testimony of a number of U.S. Senators, Representatives, school board members, and representatives from civil rights organizations. "Material for the Record" consists of prepared statements, letters, and newspaper and periodical articles. The full texts of bills on busing, numbers S.179, S.287,…

This report, written by the defense counsel for the Denver Board of Education, analyzes the events prior to and the chronological details of a law suit, filed in June 1969 against the Denver School District, alleging racial segregation. Events between 1956 and 1962 that led to the litigation are recounted: school board action in regard to boundary…

This study attempts to isolate variables which influence intelligence and achievement scores of disadvantaged black school children in the elementary school years. Based on a study of the mean changes in the IQ scores of third graders since they were in first grade, and of changes in the IQ and reading achievement scores of sixth graders since…

The constitutionally erected wall of separation between church and state is the only viable foundation for maintaining religious freedom and for preserving our public school system. The patchwork of recent court decisions and State and Federal legislation concerning aid to parochial schools threatens to erode that wall. Justifications for such aid…

Dr. David Armor introduced his paper on "busing" of pupils as busing became the political battleground of American race relations. The paper includes brief descriptions of studies of school desegregation programs in the states of Connecticut, New York, Michigan, and California, together with a more extensive coverage of his own research on a…