Word: businger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In keeping with this tradition, the 96th Congress is debating legislation that would create a separate Cabinet-level Department of Education (DOE). A House-Senate conference committee, having hashed out the differences between DOE bills H.R. 2444 and S.210, will soon send the compromise legislation back to the Senate for...
As a result, less busing was required of white students. In Tampa, desegregation recast schools in black neighborhoods as integrated centers for the sixth and seventh grades; extensive busing of white students was done only for these two grades. Black students had to put up with most of the busing...
After Tampa's busing began, a drop in white enrollment was expected but failed to take place; a handful of white-flight academies soon closed for lack of business. Today, reports School Superintendent Raymond Shelton, the only impact of busing on enrollment is a dip of 4% for grades...
In Pinellas County, whites were reassured by a rule that no school could become more than 30% black. In fact, busing has served as an incentive for neighborhood integration in St. Petersburg; white children who live near blacks can avoid busing, since they are needed to desegregate nearby schools. Busing...
In Tampa, as a whole, students are at national norms or above them, according to Superintendent Shelton. He also points out that scores have steadily improved since 1971: "I can't attribute it to busing. But it does show that you can operate a sound education program in a...