It has been over 12 years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in "Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1" (2007), which forced school districts to begin thinking of new ways to integrate their schools without relying on race as the sole factor in their assignment plans. While some school…

To shed light on the actual impact of school choice on segregation, one has to understand the counter factual--the state of segregation under the current public education system. In the late 1960s and '70s, the trend in public school racial segregation followed the trend in neighborhood segregation. That is to say both improved as American…

California legislators swiftly passed a budget bill last week aimed at sheltering school busing dollars from a midyear budget cut many districts and advocates said particularly hurt rural school systems, along with urban districts with desegregation plans. While the measure, which Gov. Jerry Brown was expected to sign into law, would restore $248…

Opponents of higher education affirmative action programs are gearing up to launch their largest attack in recent years. The planned assault comes in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that severely limited the use of race in K-12 integration plans. It was Ward Connerly, the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a…

Surveys several ideas that may help a district study its current desegregation plan to make needed improvements. They also serve as reasonable options when devising new desegregation plans, although they must be tailored to each community's situation. (Author/IRT)

In 1976 a federal district court found the entire Milwaukee Public Schools unconstitutionally segregated. The history of the desegregation of this school district is presented with an extensive discussion of the implications of the desegregation planning for the facilities planners involved. Includes a discussion of the specialty school concept.…

This document reports briefly on a meeting sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Education and attended by state-level policy-makers from nine states deeply involved in desegregation efforts. Topics discussed by the participants in relation to desegregation efforts included funding, judicial and legislative commitment, state…

This handbook was written for those residents of St. Louis who would like to involve themselves in the social, political, and public education tasks which are central to the desegregation process. Section I presents a factual summary of events in the school desegregation case beginning with the filing of the initial suit in February of 1972.…

Section I of this report presents a factual summary of events in the St. Louis school desegregation case and updates the summary presented in Part I of this series (UD 020 284). This update covers the period from February 18, 1978 to January 31, 1979. Events summarized include both legal proceedings in the court case and activities in the…

This report describes the current status of racial isolation in Michigan's public elementary and secondary schools, and details the progress which has been made in moving toward educational equality and racial desegregation in both individual schools and in school districts. Guidelines developed for providing integrated education within districts…

This report is based upon the responses to a survey of fifth through twelfth grade students. (AM)

Maintains that the Welch and Wilson studies cannot be directly compared due to differences in the larger universe from which the samples were drawn. Contends Welch's findings are an extension of his own, but questions his conclusion that desegregation implementation plans were a cause of declining white enrollment. (GEA)

Reviews the history of court ordered desegregation of schools. Includes three guidelines defining the implications for facility planners: separate but equal is inherently unequal, the scope of remedies will be in proportion to the extent of constitutional violation, and states will be mandated to finance (partially or completely) capital…