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Orfield, Gary – 1979
The significance of continuing segregation in Chicago's public schools is discussed in this report. The failure of the "Access to Excellence" program to achieve voluntary school integration in spite of magnet programs and permissive transfers is described. The question of white flight is examined in light of the belief that mandatory…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Orfield, Gary; Monfort, Franklin – 1988
Dramatic changes in the size and racial composition of the nation's largest urban school districts are indicators of an increasingly multiracial and highly segregated society. Data were analyzed from the 1986-87 and 1984-85 Department of Education computer tapes containing the enrollments by race of 36,000 schools from 3,400 districts nationwide.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Plans
