Word: defacto
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...city's 500,000 pupils attend integrated schools, that it too may face a cutoff in federal funds. At the same time, HEW teams were studying patterns of segregation in 45 other cities, a signal that Gardner may be preparing to take action in the hypersensitive area of defacto segregation...
...after a melee that stunned the nation's biggest school system. The demonstrators were old hands: members of Parents and Taxpayers (P.A.T.), the white organization that staged a massive citywide school boycott last month in an unsuccessful attempt to pressure the board into canceling calculated plans for ending defacto segregation at a handful of New York City's 850 public schools...
...greater opportunity exists on the secondary and elementary school levels. In many Southern states and in too many Northern cities, Negroes attend public schools in which poor morale, inadequate staffing, and the low socio-economic level of their students often cause education to fail completely. The widespread protests against "defacto segregation" by Negro parents this summer and fall attest to the urgency of this problem...