The Milwaukee School System responded to a court finding of segregation by structuring a program of community involvement to help in the task of planning and implementing school desegregation. The city-wide planning group came to be called the Committee of 100. The central thesis of this paper is that the quality of community involvement is not…

This paper analyzes the impact of court-ordered school desegregation on the Milwaukee, Wisconsin school system. Discussed is the history of the 1976 case that prompted court action, including development and implementation of the first year's plan and community involvement in the second year's plan. Next, the progress of litigation since the suit…

One way to address the issues involved in seeking partial or complete unitary status is for school districts to conduct a unitary-status study of the district's progress on student performance, discipline, special-education placement, and principal and teacher assignment by race, as well as data on any other areas cited in the court's liability…