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In sum, the ruling meant that busing from one community-wide school district to another is not a proper remedy for school segregation in Detroit or, by implication, in any other city. Burger's opinion left one small avenue open to cross-district busing: a court could order it...
Aside from Detroit, the city most immediately affected by the ruling is probably Louisville, where a federal judge last week ordered city and suburban school districts merged to facilitate desegregation; an appeals court may well use the Detroit case as grounds to overturn the order. Cross-district busing cases are...
Other important busing plans - notably the 20,000-student shuffle that will take place next fall in Boston - will be unaffected because city lines will not be crossed. Says Boston College Law Professor Leonard Strickman: "The suburbs have been let off the hook from participating in the attempt to solve...
A number of black parents now believe that their best immediate prospect for higher-quality education is not cross-district busing, but gaining administrative control of inner-city school systems.
A recent poll in Atlanta, for instance, showed that the city's blacks oppose busing by a 2-to-1 margin. Says Mrs. Leroy Woodward, an Atlanta school-board member: "I've always thought it was insulting to blacks to say that they would do better if they...