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Trish Morita-Mullaney – Language Policy, 2024
The Chinese of Chinatown, San Francisco largely opposed the city-wide racial integration plan that would bus their children across the city beginning in 1971. Claiming that it was a violation of their language rights, a need for cultural preservation and continued autonomy from the San Francisco that had long excluded them, Chinatown instituted…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Neighborhoods, Racial Integration, Busing
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Horsford, Sonya Douglass; Sampson, Carrie; Forletta, Felicia – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: School desegregation and resegregation in the Mountain West remain understudied despite the substantial impact the region's growth and demographic change have had on racial balance and diversity in schools. Home to the largest school district in the Mountain West and fifth largest school district in the country, Las Vegas's…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Minority Group Students, Poverty
Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
King, Richard A. – 1986
This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" examines the legal and policy issues associated with racial and ethnic segregation in the schools, including the issues related to forced busing to achieve balance. The chapter first reviews the impact of "Brown v. Board of Education" and subsequent court cases defining…
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Plans, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Watras, Joseph – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2006
On 15 April 2002, the Dayton Board of Education, the Ohio State Department of Education, and the NAACP reached an agreement ending busing for racial balance in the city schools. Participants agreed that the era for litigated desegregation was over because busing had failed to raise academic achievement of African American children and court…
Descriptors: Busing, African American Students, African American Children, Racial Integration
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Radelet, Joseph – Urban Review, 1991
The significance, purpose, and undercurrents of the Detroit school desegregation case "Bradley v. Milliken" are examined in a look at the 19-year history of Detroit's court-ordered desegregation plan. At present, school desegregation does not appear to be a priority in Detroit. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Community, Busing, Community Influence, Compliance (Legal)
Berger, Michael A. – 1982
The first part of this paper discusses the events leading up to the federal district court's May 18, 1980 decision in "Kelley et al. vs. Metropolitan County Board of Education of Nashville." The decision rejected a Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee, school board's rezoning plan and called for an end to busing in grades 1 through 4 and…
Descriptors: Busing, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans