Judge To End Monitoring Of San Diego Desegregation Order

By Joanna Richardson

A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over desegregation efforts in the San Diego schools.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Arthur W. Jones last month agreed to a request from a local anti-busing group to release the 125,000-student district from the 1977 order. He said the district's integration programs had become so institutionalized that they no longer required court monitoring.

Judge Jones is expected to issue his...