Race relations in desegregated settings is the subject of this training module. It guides trainers through the activities and lessons necessary to teach school personnel key issues regarding interpersonal race relations in the desegregated setting, and offers suggestions on how to handle these relationships effectively. Nine activities are…

After years of reform and accompanying frustration, public schools of choice have become one of today's most popular school reform strategies. More than 20 states have either passed choice legislation or are considering such action. At the present, plans based on parental influence represent the majority of district choice plans, including magnet…

In order to provide high quality specialized instruction and to achieve voluntary integration, a magnet program was developoed in the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District. The program is in its third year of implementation and currently is underway in two high schools, two middle schools, and an elementary school. Program features…

The 1977 Supreme Court decision in "Milliken v. Bradley," involving the Detroit public schools and the state of Michigan, held that federal courts possess the authority not only to order the implementation of educational program components as part of a desegregation remedy, but also to assess a portion of the cost of such components…

The relationship between school desegregation and housing desegregation is the subject of this study, which used official census and school district data from the 25 central cities with black populations over 100,000 in 1980. Both school and housing desegregation were measured with the index of dissimilarity. Results show a clear correlation…

In the 1982-83 school year, the Cincinnati Public Schools operated 21 alternative programs designed to provide specialized learning experiences along with the traditional academic curricula. Since balanced racial composition is a primary goal of these programs, applications are received from students regardless of where they reside in Cincinnati,…

Almost 14,000 students in the Cincinnati Public Schools attended alternative programs during the 1983-84 year. These voluntary programs were designed to create racially balanced schools and to provide specialized learning experiences along with traditional academic curriculum. Acceptance to the programs is based primarily on racial balance, but…

This chapter examines antibusing legislation designed to reduce or eliminate busing as a desegregation tool. After a brief background discussion of how the Brown decision came about, the legislative, judicial, and executive effects on school desegregation are reviewed. This is followed by a brief analysis of antibusing legislation. Contrary to…

Charts and worksheets are provided in this guide intended to help schools and communities solve problems involved with school integration. Sections include school-community organizational structures involved in resolving conflict, suggested organizations that can provide assistance to educational programs, and available resources. Other topics…

Issues involved in making school desegregation work are discussed in this conference report. A review of legal landmarks and a discussion of the precedents and standards of which the implementation of school desegregation depends are given. To provide background in the history of desegregation, an overview of critical integration court battles is…

The results of a survey conducted on superintendents and principals from eleven southern states are presented in this paper. These educators were asked questions related to time of desegregation, conditions under which desegregation took place, and size of school district. Results indicate that the majority of school districts in the sample…

Summarizes the latest research on segregation within and between districts and on the relationships between desegregation attempts and "white flight." (IRT)

This interim report about the court's order for voluntary, interdistrict desegregation in the St. Louis, Missouri public schools was filed by the Desegregation Monitoring and Advisory Committee. The report discusses the problems of defining the relationship between "voluntary" and "mandatory," and developing alternative…

Presented here are the remarks of William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division at the Education Commission of the States National Project on Desegregation Strategies' Workshop. Reynolds states that mandatory busing and other remedial techniques to achieve racial balance in schools (measures tentatively sanctioned by…

The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) established an alternative education system to comply with a 1976 desegregation court order. This system was composed of vanguards (grades 4-6), academies (grades 7-8), and magnet high schools (grades 9-12). These schools were expected to attract a student population which would reflect the ethnic mix…