Word: superdistrict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Merhige's plan, the new superdistrict will start operation next fall. It will bus 78,000 of the 101,000 students up to 55 minutes each way to achieve a racial mix with a 40% black maximum in all schools. The system may be expensive, Merhige wrote, but such integration "is essential to equality of education, and the failure to provide it is violative of the Constitution of the U.S." As for popular sentiment against the consolidation plan, he dismissed that by saying, "Community resistance to change affords no legal basis for the perpetuation of racial segregation...
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