Reviews cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Issues identified that are of importance to American educators include censorship, discrimination, busing, unions, and educational malpractice. (GC)

Reports the results of a study that examined attitudes towards busing among White adults in Akron, Ohio. The effects of school desegregation attitudes and cost-benefit beliefs such as preferences for neighborhood schools are analyzed. (AM)

Reviews the influences that city and State politics have on school desegregation in Los Angeles. Asserts that the Los Angeles desegregation plan reflects the influence and power of the city's westside by providing an escape from its provisions of mandatory busing while meeting the school district's desegregation guidelines. (Author/GC)

School desegregation has added changes, uncertainty, and disruption to the factors already contributing to the public's declining confidence in public schools. Desegregation plans typically bring together two diverse communities--the white middle class and the minority poor--and often effect cataclysmic change. In this circumstance, the principal…

In this article, two responses to Diane Ravitch's article, "The "White Flight' Controversy," contained in the Spring issue of The Public Interest, are presented. (AM)

To halt "white flight" to the suburbs occurring since a 1969-70 court decision imposed cross-town busing, neighborhood schools should be reinstated. The board's decision was challenged by the United States District Court, upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals (Fourth Circuit), and may become a Supreme Court case. (MLH)

A survey of White, Black, and Latino parents in Chicago, Illinois, revealed that most favored desegregation of the schools, but did not approve of busing to achieve that desegregation. (FL)

It has now become fashionable to base conservative social policy and political decisions on the reports of neoconservative social scientists. Thus, it is important to examine the political and historical context of the new Coleman report, which purports to have found evidence against busing for school desegregation. (Author/GC)

In the Plainfield (New Jersey) School District, recent changes in the community's racial composition have made possible a return to neighborhood schools with little or no change in the racial balance of the schools. The reduction of bus routes, planned for 1982-83, is expected to cut costs by $137,600. (Author/MLF)

Describes a study that evaluated the impact of a voluntary busing program begun in Chicago for the purpose of school desegregation. Discusses student academic achievement, student affect, classroom interaction, and parent attitudes. Concludes that, though the program was not detrimental to students in desegregated schools, parent discontent seemed…

Presents a discussion in which conventional wisdom is challenged on the subject of school desegregation. Among the topics is whether school desegregation is dying or dead, whether the general public wants school desegregation, and whether desegregation has improved schools or is a failed policy. (GR)

Describes how school districts, faced with shrinking resources, have cut costs for student transportation. To combat rising transportation costs, districts have charged fees for student transportation, entered into private contracts, cut transportation services, used alternative fuels, and streamlined bus routes and schedules. (LMI)

Examines what Carr found when he investigated the accuracy of David Armor's predictions on the effects of continuing and discontinuing busing in Norfolk (Virginia). Argues against Carr's assertions that because Armor's predictions were in error, there is no White flight in response to busing. (JS)

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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…