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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
An examination was made of the U.S. Department of Education grants awarded to the Cleveland School District for desegregation activities, including how Department of Education funds were used by the school district and how the department administered and monitored Magnet School grants awarded to the school district for fiscal years 1986 and 1987.…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Brooks, Jennifer Giddings – 1985
The 1984-85 Magnet Program of the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District is described and evaluated in this report. General data and information on specific sites are included. The major finding was that the Fort Worth magnet schools were highly successful in providing for high academic performance, and moderately successful as an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Parker, Franklin – 1984
Views concerning the influence of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in "Brown versus the Board of Education" which ended school segregation are discussed. Historian Raymond Wolters believes that while segregation was wrong and the Supreme Court's unanimous decision reversing the "separate but equal" interpretation was right, the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Civil Rights, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Raivetz, Mark J. – 1986
In October 1983, the School District of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission signed a memorandum of understanding that resulted in a Modified Desegregation Plan. The plan itself consisted of three complementary initiatives: (1) an educational improvement component promising systemwide educational reforms, specialized…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Magnet Schools
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
Under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, local school district funds are supplemented in basic skills development, educational improvement and support services, and special programs. For the 1984-85 year, in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District, some of the Chapter 2 discretionary funds were allocated to four…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Desegregation Methods, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement
Bell, Peter D. – 1987
Express routing, under consideration by San Diego (California) Public Schools, is a form of bus transportation that picks up and drops off students at centralized points instead of driving through residential neighborhoods. This report examines other, similar districts' experiences in applying express routing in integration and other school…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Busing, Cost Effectiveness, Desegregation Methods
Orfield, Gary – 1981
This report is based on a study that explored possibilities for an urban desegregation strategy that would relate school desegregation policy to housing policy. The study sought to identify models for coordinating operations of personnel involved in housing and those involved in school desegregation by investigating 12 American cities that had…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Hamilton, Rabinovitz and Szanton, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. – 1979
The results of computer simulations of each of 17 variations on 4 prototypical desegregation plans applied to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are reported in this document. The prototypes, each representing a category of proposals offered at one point or another during the litigation of the desegregation issues are: (1) an…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education
Hamilton, Rabinovitz and Szanton, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. – 1980
This document reports the results of computer simulations of each of 19 variations on 4 prototypical desegregation plans applied to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Each prototype represents one of the following categories of proposals offered during the litigation of the desegregation issue in the California courts: (1) an…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education
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Raspberry, William; Meyers, Michael – Integrated Education, 1974
Raspberry argues that there is no persuasive evidence that racial balancing is worth the effort in terms of increased educational opportunity for the children; Meyers asserts that Raspberry's objections are based on several misconceptions about the goals of integrationists. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Facilities Improvement
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McAdams, John D. – Public Interest, 1974
Argues that the data show that black parents will opt for integration if given the chance, and white parents can be drawn to integrated schools with attractive curricula: Open Enrollment can reasonably be expected to produce significant integration without the political and moral costs of coercion. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Desegregation Methods, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Open Enrollment
Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – IAR Research Bulletin, 1974
Discusses a number of recent desegregation cases in which the United States Supreme Court has been called on to decide whether cross-district busing is an appropriate remedy for segregation. (JF)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation
Roye, Wendell J. – 1970
The manuals and other materials described in this document were created for an inservice training program to assist educators in one school district in Evanston, Illinois to develop some common understanding about crucial integration issues. The program and the manuals were the products of a broadly based community commitment to make desegregation…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Influences, Black Power, Blacks
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
The desegregation of the Stamford public schools began in the 1960's with the construction of new schools to meet the needs of the growing student population. The board of education implemented a plan to desegregate the high schools in 1962, the middle schools in 1967 and '68, and the elementary schools in 1970 and '72. In desegregating its school…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
WENNERBERG, C.H. – 1964
A DISCUSSION OF EARLIER EFFORTS TO STUDY THE PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION IS INCLUDED AS BACKGROUND TO THIS EFFORT. THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATED EDUCATION IS EXAMINED AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR ACCULTURATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IS HIGHLIGHTED. CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN ANALYZED AND CONCLUSIONS ARE THAT SEGREGATION IS DAMAGING TO ALL CHILDREN, AND…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Desegregation Methods, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Strategies
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