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City-Suburban Integration Plan Upheld in N.J.
In a move that could affect desegregation efforts statewide, the New Jersey Board of Education has denied a mostly white suburban school district's request to pull its students out of a mostly minority high school in a nearby urban area.
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Milwaukee Offers Desegregation Settlement to State, 22 Suburbs
The Milwaukee Public Schools last week presented the state of Wisconsin and 22 suburban Milwaukee County school districts with a comprehensive plan aimed at settling a two-year-old metropolitan-desegregation lawsuit.
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Black Pupils Fare Well in Suburbs
Despite some expectations to the contrary, black students who moved from low-income areas of Chicago to predominantly white suburbs are maintaining their grades, even though they face higher academic standards in their new suburban schools, according to a study by researchers at Northwestern University.
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Gap in Suburban, Urban School Spending Widens
The gap in per-capita spending for schools between central cities and suburbs grew between 1977 and 1981, even though central cities were spending relatively more on education than they had in the past, according to a new report by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
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Federal Judge Orders Consolidation Of Little Rock, Suburban Districts
A federal district judge in Little Rock, Ark., has ruled that two largely white suburban school districts have contributed to student segregation in the city schools and thus should be consolidated with the predominantly black district.
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Judge Removes Suburbs From Kansas City Desegregation Suit
A federal district judge dismissed charges last week against 11 predominantly white suburban Kansas City, Mo., school districts in a lawsuit seeking to desegregate the city school system.
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Suburban Milwaukee Districts Rap Desegregation Plan
Ten suburban Milwaukee school districts vowed last week to resist efforts by the city school board to force the "involuntary busing" of area students.
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Cease-Fire Ordered in Suburban Lunchroom
It wasn't as bad as "Animal House," but high-school students in one Michigan school district, armed with lunchroom fare, were rivaling the cafeteria melees depicted in the movie spoof about college fraternities.
Food fights in the cafeteria of Grosse Pointe North High School--located in an affluent suburb of Detroit--escalated from four each month in September to four each day in October, when John Kastran, the school's principal, laid down the law: Any student caught tossing food anywhere other than down the hatch was to be suspended for three days, excluded from the cafeteria for two weeks, and required to bring his parents to school for a conference.
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St. Louis, Suburbs Await Approval Of 24 Districts' Desegregation Pact
All but one of 23 suburban St. Louis school boards last week endorsed an agreement that, if approved by a federal district judge, would set in motion the nation's largest voluntary school-desegregation effort to date.
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Voluntary Desegregation Plan Advances in St. Louis, Suburbs
Lawyers for the St. Louis public schools, 23 suburban school districts, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) narrowly beat a court-imposed deadline and agreed to the terms of a comprehensive document last week that paves the way for the nation's first voluntary school-desegregation plan between a major American city and its suburbs.
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Suburbs Cleared in Chicago Suit
The Justice Department has announced that its lawyers have found no evidence that suburban school districts have contributed to the segregation of students in Chicago's public schools and that, therefore, those districts should not be forced to join in a cross-district desegregation plan with the city.
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Accord Reached on Desegregation Plan for St. Louis, 22 Suburbs
All but one of 23 school districts in suburban St. Louis last week came to an agreement with the city's school board on a voluntary cross-district school-desegregation plan that, if approved by a federal judge, could become the largest such effort in the nation.
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New State Role Called Essential To Urban-Suburban Integration
Educators and desegregation advocates from five states, addressing a statewide invitational conference here last week, took a hard look at voluntary school-integration efforts, past and present, and found themselves in consensus on these points: