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Compilation of median scores for white and Negro students in Norfolk schools based on California Mental Maturity, Achievement, and Arithmetic tests

Letter regarding a flaw in the printing of the test directions and an adjustment table to compensate for the problem.

Procedure created by the Norfolk School Board for preparation and proper implementation of the new pupil assignment plan for the 1984-85 school year.

Memorandum discussing the upcoming Superindent's conference, in which movement of furniture and teacher reassignments are needed to be discussed.

Brief report by the Norfolk School Board, describing projected enrollment under the proposed Neighborhood School Plan.

Memorandum to Sam W. Ray, Jr. from David E. Jones, Jr., in regard to planning procedures for the neighborhood school organizational plan.

Memorandum sent to Norfolk School Board members in regard to the first draft of the neighborhood school attendance plan.

Memorandum from Albert L. Ayars, Superintendent of Schools, to Philip R. Trapani, City Attorney, in regard to the implementation of the neighborhood school plan.

Legal document, describing the plaintiffs' contesting of the defense's "white-flight" and "resegregation" arguments, in that the racial composition of the schools has been stable since 1980.

Legal document, describing the plaintiffs' contesting of the defense's "white-flight" and "resegregation" arguments, in that the racial composition of the schools has been stable since 1980.

Legal document, allowing reports showing attendance and racial composition for the Norfolk public schools during the 1984-85 and 1985-86 school years to be admitted as evidence for the plaintiffs.

Rough draft of announcement for the viewing of public documents concerning the neighborhood schools plan.

Report dating from the 1970s, showing a projected enrollment of junior high schools with ninth graders assigned to senior high schools.

A list for schools in Norfolk requesting late buses.

Listing of addresses for senior, junior, and elementary schools, as well as auxiliary educational facilities in Norfolk.

Articles in this newsletter include: the U.S. Senate's rejection of Robert H. Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court; the raising of property and income tax to pay for cross-town busing in Kansas City; possible end to crosstown busing in Boston; Norfolk's return to neighborhood schools. Brief articles in this newsletter details efforts to end cross-town busing in cities such as Cleveland, Ohio and Dallas, Texas, as well as "socioeconomic balanced" busing in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Articles in this newsletter include: criticism of busing by commentators William Raspberry and Tony Brown; efforts to end busing in DeKalb County, Georgia; failure of busing to integrate schools nationwide; longer school days and even school years in New Jersey; "economically mixed" schools in LaCrosse, Wisconsin; the U.S. Senate's failure to approve the School Choice amendment. Brief articles in this newsletter details efforts to end cross-town busing in cities such as St. Louis, Missouri; and Jefferson County, Kentucky.

A survey conducted by the Atlanta School Board in July 1970, of approximately 800 teachers who were transferred via court-order in March of the same year to obtain a pre-determined ratio of teachers according to race in Atlanta schools. Main focuses of the survey included pupil reaction to the newly transferred teachers; the manner in which the new school received the transferred teachers; orientation and assistance given to the transferred teachers; the transferred teachers' understanding of the students' backgrounds and abilities; and instructional materials and equipment provided.

A chronology of events regarding the desegregation of public schools in Nashville, Tennessee.

Statistical report from "Patterns of White Flight : 1971-1979" describing white flight patterns in Nashville, Tennessee, as a result of court ordered cross-town busing for all students which began in 1971.