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50 Years of ERIC
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Implementing Controlled Choice and the Search for Educational Equity in the Rockford, Illinois, Public Schools: A Survey of Parents Who Withdrew from the Rockford Public Schools after the 1998-99 School Year.
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Taylor, D. Garth; Alves, Michael J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2000
Surveyed parents in the Rockford School District 205, Illinois, to determine why they withdrew their children from the schools after implementation of the controlled choice mandated school desegregation plan. Parents left for reasons unrelated to desegregation. The most common reason for leaving was a search for improved educational quality. Other…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Parent Attitudes
Controlled Choice: Rockford, Illinois, Desegregation.
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Taylor, D. Garth; Alves, Michael J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1999
Discusses the Controlled Choice Student Assignment component of the Comprehensive Remedial Order issued by a federal judge to "cure" discrimination in the Rockford (Illinois) School District. Parents and students choose their public schools subject to a residence-zone requirement for elementary schools only. A parent survey indicates high…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education