This study compares segregation levels in Milwaukee public schools and in private schools participating in the Milwaukee voucher program. Using a segregation index that measures the difference between the percent of students in a school who are white and the percentage of school-age children in the greater metro area who are white, it finds that…

"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) State of American Business: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Says U.S. Could Face a "Severe Worker Shortage" Unless…

[Available from Wayne State University Law School, 468 West Ferry, Detroit, Michigan 48202]. (JM)

An analysis of current and potential future problems facing efforts to desegregate Boston schools in which a number of suggestions are offered to facilitate the process of quality education for all by adequately preparing community, parent, and school personnel and nurturing student interracial initiatives. (EH)

Elementary school enrollments for the Fall of 1983 in Broward County (Florida) were studied in order to test the following hypothesis: relevant policy promulgated by the Board of Education did not result in "racially" balanced elementary schools. These specific questions were addressed: (1) To what extent were the elementary schools of…

This paper outlines developments in the segregation of Hispanics in public schools. It begins with a review of Gary Orfield's study, "Desegregation of Black and Hispanic Students from 1968 to 1980." Orfield determined that during the last decade Hispanics have been increasingly segregated in public schools, and are currently even more…

In September, 1973, a white principal in a predominantly black elementary school in Portland, Oregon gave an interview to the city's largest daily newspaper: the resulting controversy helps sharpen the focus of the debate concerning means of achieving school integration. (JM)

This report summarizes the results of a survey on the status of school desegregation in 47 major school districts in the United States. A profile of each district is provided together with a report on the desegregation status of that district. Supreme Court decisions with regard to school desegregation from 1954 to the present, the history of…

This report notes that the Jefferson County, Kentucky, school system has failed to implement the 1975 Court-ordered desegregation plan. Data supplied by the Board of Education and data taken from previous state Human Rights Commission reports demonstrate that Jefferson County schools continue to manifest racial imbalance among students, faculty…

In this paper the author takes the position that integrated schools are basic to a genuinely integrated society. Similarly, only through equal education can we offer equal opportunity to every citizen. Segregated schools, the author states, are a result of poverty and government sanctioned segregation in other areas. The most obvious of these…

This article attempts to contribute to the understanding of systemic racism by showing some of the subtlety and pervasiveness of this racism, primarily through an analysis of how the violence in Boston during the spring of 1976 was, and continues to be, handled. (Author/EB)

Provides a brief history of the discrimination against Black education and argues that Blacks now attend separate and unequal schools. (IRT)

Community preparation for school desegregation is essential for a peaceful, orderly process and improved educational quality. Examples are given of three large cities that faced problems with different attitudes and means of solving these problems. (JD)

This research describes "how" and "when" the separate schools in nineteenth-century Boston were organized and the role of the black community in the establishment of a system of segregated education. (Editor/RK)

Discusses her daughter's experiences as a minority white student in the District of Columbia public schools and relates them to national attitudes towards school integration and race relations, as well as to the differences in the conditions under which black and white children are raised. (JM)