Abstract

Busing rolls to a stop

This article informs that according to the U.S. Justice Department, since the seventies, forty-two school desegregation orders, affecting forty-five school districts, have been lifted. Judges in Boston, Tampa, Denver, Buffalo, St. Louis and dozens of other municipalities have been either considering ending or have already halted court-supervised school integration. The courts have not, for the most part, been sympathetic to the argument that race-based programs are necessary because discrimination still exists. For example, in Delaware in 1995, after the four districts of the Wilmington school system forced a trial to. end nearly two decades of federal court supervision of schools, U.S. District Court Judge Sue Robinson, a Bush appointee, decided that the school system had done its job toward integration.