Offers guidelines to school districts with problems of racial isolation concerning eligibility for a grant under the Emergency School Aid Act. Sets down deadlines, eligibility deadlines and steps to take in applying. (Author/JN)

The original evaluation of the effect of Emergency School Assistance Programs (ESAP) in the second year, indicated that black male tenth graders in schools receiving the emergency aid did significantly better on a test of academic performance than did similar students in non-funded comparison schools. No program effects were reported for other…