Analyzes the effects of income inequality and community wealth on the desegregation experiences of 69 Black and Puerto Rican students participating in a busing program in five suburban Connecticut high schools. Finds that minority group students were more likely to feel welcome in the less affluent communities. (FMW)

The primary objective of the court-mandated busing plan in Jefferson County (Kentucky) is to promote racially integrated schools and classrooms. The numerous protests since 1975 in Louisville over court-mandated busing are evidence of a low level of intercultural understanding and tolerance. This paper seeks to probe a source of the…

The Riverside Unified School District, Riverside (California) experienced desegregation in ways that many school districts experienced it in the 1960s. It became the first city of its size (over 100,000) to implement a full-scale racial balance plan and implement it within 7 weeks. This study examines the successes and failures of desegregation…

This paper presents a set of new ideas which support the value of school desegregation in the United States. First, school desegregation efforts have been almost universally effective, no matter what implementation strategy was employed. Even busing, although widely criticized, has been effective. Second, desegregation efforts have usually…

This report presents the 1982-83 results of an ongoing evaluation of two voluntary integration programs, Permits With Transportation (PWT) and Continued Voluntary Permits (CVP), which operate within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Information on implementation methods is presented for the use of district policymakers and for gauging…

This is one part of an evaluation of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Other Non-Anglo (PHBAO) student integration programs. The evaluation is based on data collected from staff, students, and parents during 1982-83 at schools that are at least 70% non-Anglo. This volume contains the last three of…