School districts that try to make desegregation a step that improves their education program find the extra effort required results in increased costs. The government's Emergency School Aid Act was evaluated to see how it could reduce minority group isolation and the effects of such isolation. (Author/RK)

The Emergency School Assistance Program provides grants to school districts to defray the costs of meeting special problems arising from the desegregation of elementary and secondary schools. This report deals with the second of two phases of the review of this program, made at 28 of a sample of 50 participating school districts. The objective of…