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Berger, Michael A. – Urban Education, 1983
Discusses the background and implications of a court decision resulting in the resegregation of public schools in metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee, because of declining enrollment. Speculates whether the events indicate a trend back to the concept of neighborhood schools and an end to busing to achieve desegregation. (AOS)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Busing, Declining Enrollment, Desegregation Litigation
Berger, Michael A. – 1982
The first part of this paper discusses the events leading up to the federal district court's May 18, 1980 decision in "Kelley et al. vs. Metropolitan County Board of Education of Nashville." The decision rejected a Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee, school board's rezoning plan and called for an end to busing in grades 1 through 4 and…
Descriptors: Busing, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans