Efforts to break down de facto school segregation, which usually reflects residential patterns, often involve busing some students to schools outside their neighborhoods. Although busing has decreased segregation, it has sometimes created problems of its own. Transportation administrators, interviewed in Riverside, Sacramento, Berkeley, Los…

Reported were the results of a contract that involved identification, description, and categorization of the nature of transportation problems for the mentally retarded by means of analysis of existing studies, two surveys, and an inventory of specialized programs and systems operating in the United States. One major problem was found to be…

Outlines the advantages of having an updated system in a school district that coordinates the location of all students. (Author/MLF)

A program combining classroom and community training in bus-riding skills to developmentaly disabled adults featured slide presentations, role playing, and performance in the natural environment. Test trials showed that all Ss learned necessary bus-riding skills and maintained their performance throughout the follow-up period of at least one year.…

A photo-bus-route-map resulted in increased independence in bus travel for four trainable mentally retarded adults. The map included names and numbers of buses, photographs of the boarding point and at least 14 possible destinations, and rebus figures. (CL)

How the Federal Government assesses desegregation plans and decides whether or not to extend financial aid to these plans. (JF)

In Williamsville, New York a busing proposal resulted in referenda and widespread harassment of board members. (RA)

Discusses impending congressional action on the voucher plan and the implications of the Supreme Court decision upholding the busing program in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school system (Author)

Excerpts from the California Supreme Court decision on the right of the San Francisco School Board to effectuate a limited desegregation plan embracing the Park South school complex. (RJ)