In order to assess student perceptions and needs regarding school climate in the newly desegregated Marion County, Indiana, schools in 1983, a questionnaire was administered to a random sample of students. The sample included 10 percent of the white students (residents of the suburban areas in which the schools were located) and 30 percent of the…

Information sources used by parents of majority and minority students in making decisions about school choice, with a focus on busing, are examined in this report. A mailed survey of parents of approximately 8,431 students in the San Jose Unified School District (California) yielded 934 responses, of which minority households comprised 60 percent…

Presented in this report are the findings of two surveys which were administered to parents of children attending magnet schools in St. Louis. Results of the surveys, the Magnet/Pilot Parent Questionnaire and the Parent Participation Questionnaire are used to illustrate: (1) how parent participation differed in magnet, other (non-magnet) public…

The Riverside Unified School District, Riverside (California) experienced desegregation in ways that many school districts experienced it in the 1960s. It became the first city of its size (over 100,000) to implement a full-scale racial balance plan and implement it within 7 weeks. This study examines the successes and failures of desegregation…