Pressure Spurs 2 Richmond Schools To Stop Clustering White Students

By Peter Schmidt

Two Richmond, Va., elementary schools have agreed to stop clustering white students in the same classrooms in response to complaints from parents and pressure from the district's central administration.

Willis B. McLeod, an associate superintendent of the Richmond schools, last week said officials at Bellevue Model School and Ginter Park Elementary School will implement new student-assignment plans when the spring term begins early next month.

Both schools agreed last month to reassign white students who had been clustered together after being urged to do so by school board members and Superintendent Lucille M....