ERIC Number: ED302605
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Nov
Pages: 448
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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The Bronson Settlement Review: Year Four, 1987-88.
Evans, Robert W.; Nieman, Ronald W.
School year 1987-88 marked the mid-point of the seven-year desegregation settlement for the Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools. This report presents data from a review of progress that was provided for in the Bronson Settlement Agreement, answers plaintiff questions, and addresses district concerns. The following subjects are discussed: (1) progress in meeting the requirements of the Taeuber Index; (2) alternative schools; (3) Open Enrollment Program; (4) staff racial balance; (5) unbiased tests and policies, including standardized testing, minority acceleration program, and suspension and expulsion policy; (6) isolation within buildings; (7) improvement in low achieving schools; (8) extracurricular activities; and (9) district/city housing activities. Comments, suggestions, or criticisms are provided at the beginning of each section. Appendices provide the following data for the 1987-88 academic year: (1) entry journalizing results of mandated midpoint hearing; (2) projections for Taeuber Index levels, and Taeuber impact of Price Hill Plan; (3) summary data on Alternative Programs, Open Enrollment Program, and Low-Achieving Schools Program; (4) evaluation of Open Enrollment Program; (5) settlement agreement status reports; (6) achievement tests results and on college-related testing programs; (7) Walnut Hills High School, Minority Acceleration reports on Program evaluation; (8) summary of suspensions and expulsions; (9) systemwide discipline review committee assignments; (10) analysis of racial and gender balance; (11) findings of a study on student involvement in extracurricular activities; (12) letters between the court, counsel, and district regarding position description for Director of Bronson Settlement Agreement; and (13) minutes of communitywide task force. Tables and graphs illustrate the data. (BJV)
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Expulsion, Extracurricular Activities, High School Students, Housing, Minority Group Children, Neighborhood Integration, Nontraditional Education, Open Enrollment, Program Evaluation, Racial Balance, School Desegregation, Sex, Staff Development, Standardized Tests, Suspension, Test Bias
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Cincinnati Public Schools, OH.
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