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What happened to Webster is that it was turned into a so-called magnet school. Across the country, schools like this, usually specializing in one subject area, such as math and science, but always emphasizing excellence, proliferated during the 1970s to promote voluntary integration. The idea was that white families...
The Reagan Administration, which has tried to put the brakes on busing for the past three years, seems to agree. Last week the Justice Department approved a school-desegregation plan for Bakersfield, Calif., that does not include forced busing but instead relies on the creation of four elementary magnet schools...
The Bakersfield decision quickly brought to the surface once again the emotional issue of school desegregation. After the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1975 charged that the Bakersfield school district operated racially imbalanced schools, the district resisted busing. "The question now is whether the Justice Department is really...
Norman Chachkin, a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law insisted that the agreement "should have been backed up with a provision for mandatory busing." He cited Chicago as a city where voluntary desegregation based on the creation of magnet schools "has been nothing short of a...
Your editorial "Civil Wrongs" (January 27, 1984) describes the old United States Commission on Civil Rights as being "characterized by fierce independence," the new one as "a mouthpiece for Reagan." It attacks the Commission votes against quotas and busing, and for the continuation of a study of the effect of...