As of summer 2012, there are 31 interdistrict magnet schools in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut, including those at The Learning Corridor (a 14-acre compound with roughly 1,570 students in attendance among an elementary, middle, and two high schools), enrolling about 13,000 students and supported by a mix of state, local, and…

In June 2007, the Supreme Court limited the tools that school districts could use to voluntarily integrate schools. In the aftermath of the decision, educators around the country have sought models of successful plans that would also be legal. One such model may be Berkeley Unified School District's (BUSD) plan. Earlier this year, the California…

Fifty years after "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) (Brown I), American schools remain racially separate and radically unequal in both per pupil expenditures and student performance. Although "de jure" school segregation is still illegal, "de facto" racial segregation is increasing. In order to understand why…

Examines, from a practical viewpoint, the problems and issues related to metropolitanizing public schools by judicial decree. Reviews the significant relevant cases and extracts the controlling principles from them. Applies those principles in an effort to answer some fundamental practical questions. (Author)

Discusses developments in the desegregation of Boston public schools: in Fall 1974 the public schools of Boston underwent the first phase of a court-ordered desegregation plan, and in Fall 1975, Boston will commence Phase Two of court-ordered school desegregation. (Author/JM)

Discusses a case which attempts to address the problems of city-suburban segregation: its significance lies in the uniqueness of the remedy applied to Detroit and in the high probability that this type of remedy, if applicable, would be applicable to other metropolitan areas. (Author/JM)

Discusses all the testimony presented in the course of the landmark case 'Bradley vs. Milliken' with the stated purpose of discovering what kinds of social science materials were introduced, evaluating their quality and comprehensiveness, and evaluating how accurately the judicial decisions reflected the weight of the social science evidence.…

Reviews the growth of desegregation, evaluates various techniques, and points out economic, social, and psychological constraints on desegregation. (DS)

This study originated in 1968, when desegregation was being carried out mainly on a one-way basis, by busing minority pupils to predominantly white schools. Two of the districts studied, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island, were then groping their way toward racial balance, primarily because of local pressures, and both had…

Focuses on four topics: (1) the Irish stronghold of South Boston; (2) the role of the Boston School Committee in the lack of enforcement of pro-integration legislation; (3) four types of by-products of the bussing issue--political implications, violence, the changed meaning of bussing, and parental fears; and (4) the implementation of Boston's two…

Presents an historic overview of school desegregation court decisions. Discusses governmental and socioeconomic factors that have influenced school desegregation policy. Describes the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) school desegregation settlement based on voluntary interdistrict student transfers and efforts to remedy racial isolation by integrating…

The contents of this compilation of information on desegregation activities in Philadelphia, funded under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 405, are organized in 11 parts, as follows: (1) Introduction, (2) Description of School District of Philadelphia, (3) Housing Patterns as a Factor in Desegregation, (4) Map Depicting Racial…

Contents of this series of reports include: (1) "Issues in Desegregation," emphasizing that equality of educational opportunity is a basic legal and societal requirement to which other concerns, such as neighborhood schools, achievement levels, or busing are extraneous; (2)"The impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on achieving…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1972 on a case involving changes in boundaries of a county school district in Virginia which had been operated as a dual school system. Two weeks after a federal district Court ordered a school-pairing plan, the Emporia City Council announced that city's intention to operate an independent school system. The…

The Program for Educational Opportunity, an institute based at the University of Michigan and established by the Office of Education pursuant to Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is designed to assist school districts in the process of desegregation. The Program annually conducts a series of conferences. The Conference on Developments in…