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There are other methods of removing the inequities in education: better funding for substandard schools, special programs, a student "voucher" system and traveling teaching teams. Yale's Bickel believes that imaginative programs can be devised to equalize educational standards, noting that the courts are insisting on busing partly because...
RICHMOND is a peaceful, tobacco-rich community nestled on the banks of Virginia's James River. Last week, however, many of the area's 480,000 citizens seemed ready to take to the Civil War trenches that still border parts of the city. Once the embattled capital of...
School busing, an issue that has been smoldering in Richmond for two years, last month flared up when U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige handed down a landmark decision (TIME, Jan. 24). To end Richmond's unequal and racially imbalanced educational structure, Merhige ordered that the increasingly black (now...
There are 101,000 students in Richmond and in the two adjoining counties; consolidation would add only 10,000 children to the 68,000 that are already being bused either for purposes of integration or basic transportation. But reaction to the order was quick and heated. Angry whites sneered that...
The flight of whites to the suburbs, which intensified when busing first started in Richmond in 1970, is now spreading beyond Henrico and Chesterfield counties. Says one real estate salesman in semi-rural Hanover County: "I can no longer measure the market because I've sold everything under roof...