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...made up of Charlotte. N.C., and surrounding Mecklenburg County-that represent the most exhaustive efforts so far to overcome the South's traditional patterns. Under the plans, which are being challenged by whites, busing and redistricting have entirely eliminated all-black schools. The plans impose roughly the same ratio of each district's racial makeup on each school's enrollment. Both districts had long used busing to enforce segregation. By using it to enforce desegregation, the districts have added 880 more riders in Clarke County, 23,000 in Charlotte. Although whites talked of keeping their children home...
...identifiable as black. The court moved in that direction in a 1969 decision requiring that the proportion of teachers in each of a district's schools substantially reflect the district's overall staff makeup. Although he did not urge the court to adopt a fixed ratio for black and white pupils, Attorney Julius LeVonne Chambers suggested that in districts where whites are in a majority, no school should be more than 90% white or 50% black...
...School has the least to worry about in terms of male-female ratio problems. In this year's entering class, there was a nearly equal number of male and female applicants, acceptances, and final registrants...
Although the committee has been formed to deal with women above the undergraduate level, Bynum said that merger and ratio issues might be relevant problems to discuss. "We're open to arguments that we have to go into the basic issue of proportions within the University," she said. She added that the present number of women in the GSAS is about 20 per cent...
...entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover, he wants C.U.N.Y. to take over several city high schools and try new teaching methods. One idea: a flexible middle school that would span the last two years of high school and the first two of college...