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But despite the fervor of a few right-wing ideologues, who were chiefly responsible for the hard-line platform planks against abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment and school busing for racial desegregation, Reagan's convention managers and a majority of the delegates were determined to keep anyone from bolting the...
Black attitudes toward the white-dominated school board that acquired a conservative majority in elections last year may be even more hostile. The new members contend they have a voter mandate to fight all plans for busing students to achieve better racial balance in the schools, despite court orders to...
Rounding up the usual suspects in the learning crisis is easy enough. The decline of the family that once instilled respect for authority and learning. The influence of television on student attention span. The disruption of schools created by busing, and the national policy of keeping more students in school...
In another key decision, the U.S. Supreme Court last week affirmed a lower-court ruling that rejected a plan to bus children between Atlanta's predominantly black schools and the mainly white institutions in nine surrounding suburban districts. The decision, which was not accompanied by a written opinion outlining...
Undeterred, the Justice Department asked a federal court in Houston three days later to integrate the city's school system with 22 surrounding districts. The agency argues that Houston's situation differs from Atlanta's because some districts in the Atlanta case had set up desegregation programs...