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The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round: Rethinking the St. Louis Busing Program
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Tango M. Walker; Ketosha M. Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This autoethnography shares our personal experiences and counter-narratives in the St. Louis busing program. Through our mission we expound on experiences and real-life situations as seen through our lens as a student and a mother in the St. Louis busing program. Critical race theory (CRT) was used as an essential framework allowing us to focus on…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Busing, Personal Narratives, Ethnography
Turbulence in St. Louis County: School Transfers, Opportunity Hoarding, and the Legacy of "Brown"
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Grooms, Ain – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
In the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, and the process of school desegregation fell mostly to Black children. For over 35 years, Black families in St. Louis City have been using school transfers to cross boundaries in order to send their children to higher…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, School Districts, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
Desegregation Instruction Unit. Secondary School Student Packet.
Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1980
This instructional packet was designed for secondary school students in St. Louis, Missouri, to promote their understanding of the city's court-ordered school desegregation plan. An abridged and edited version of the Court of Appeals brief for the Liddell v. the St. Louis Board of Education case is presented in the packet. The brief includes a…
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Instructional Materials
St. Louis Metropolitan Voluntary Desegregation Transportation Program: Policy and Procedure Manual.
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1986
The policies and procedures described in this manual were developed to implement court-ordered desegregation transportation service for the interdistrict transfer plan. For the most part, these policies and procedures have been in effect since the beginning of the 1982-83 school year. The State Board of Education has acknowledged these policies…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Busing, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education
Parent Perceptions of Magnet Schools as a Method of Desegregation.
Loveridge, Robert L.; And Others – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Busing, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
The Desegregation Plan of the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis.
Saint Louis Board of Education, MO. – 1980
This is the 1980 desegregation plan of the Board of Education of the City of Saint Louis, Missouri. The document contains information on the following: (1) grade configurations, school clustering, and projected enrollments; (2) transportation; (3) magnet and alternative schools; (4) school specialty programs; (5) student transfer policy; (6) staff…
Descriptors: Black Students, Busing, Community Involvement, Desegregation Plans