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Further refinement 011 the available information concerning
the tipping factor is suggested by a recent large-Bcale Florida
study.. The involved made it possible to avoid a
confusing factor that was in m,any previous studies: the presence
of effects from both school desegregation and residential
desegregation. Because of this mixture in previous tipping factor
studies, it has been difficult to tell if white flight has resulted
from increase of black percentage in the school, in
the neighborhood, or in both.
In the Florida study, each of the seven school districts was
county-wide, had a local pattern of residential segr,egation, and
court-ordered busing that produced school desegregation acro.ss
neighborood lines.E,ach district, too" was surrounded by other
districts that also were in the process of similar desegregation.
White flight a'ccelerated the first year after a given school
reached the 30 per cent minority level and gradually declined
thereafter. The flight of families with bused students was no
greater than that of those with pedestrian students. However,
it was greater for higher income families than for lower income
families. The researchers concluded that whit,e flight is les.s
when movement to a nearby all-white suburban school district
is not an option available to most white families with chHdren
assigned to desegregated schools. And, efforts to. maintain minority
enrollment at 80 per cent or less in each school is a rational
policy for minimizing resegregation and achieving stable
minority-majority proportions in the schools.H
The survey team concluded that a range of 10 to 30 per cent
for minority enrollment provides a desirable "band" for desegregation.
In other words, this band offers the optimum potential
for meaningful minority-majority interaction without precipitous
white flight. The team also noted that practical faetors-
such as the geographical extensiveness of a school district
and des.egregation status in a district wi th to surrounding
distri,e1i--must be taken into account since they influence the
amount of white flight t or school popUlation instability, that
may occur.
The survey team employed the 10 to 30 per cent band concept
and four other "implementing directives" in its rationale for
(a) determining what further desegregation is needed in the
Fort Wayne Community Schools~ and (b) guiding the formulation
of alternative approaches. The extent to which individual
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Object Description
| Title | Fort Wayne community schools: a survey report |
| Creator | George Peabody College for Teachers. Office of Educational Services |
| Topic | Education |
| Subject |
Schools--Indiana--Fort Wayne School integration--Indiana--Fort Wayne |
| Geographical Coverage | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Date of Original | 1975 |
| Time Period | 1900-1999 |
| Source | Print version: George Peabody College for Teachers. Office of Educational Services. Fort Wayne community schools: a survey report. (Nashville, Tenn.: Office of Educational Services, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1975), 338 p. |
| Additional Availability | Print version might be available at IPFW Helmke Library. See online catalog. |
| Rights | Copyright Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2006- . All rights reserved. May not be reproduced without permission. For information regarding reproduction and use see: http://cdm16776.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about/collection/p16776coll1/ |
| Date Digitally Created | April 17 2012 |
| Digital Publisher | Walter E. Helmke Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| Digitization Specifications | This pdf file was derived from black and white 400 dpi, 1-bit and color 300 dpi, 24-bit uncompressed TIFF images that were scanned from the originals using a Konica Minolta PS5000C scanner with Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional scanning software. |
| Content Type | Text |
| Digital Format | text/pdf |
| Collection | Fort Wayne Area Government Information |
| Identifier | 30000101350159 |
| File Name | 30000101350159.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 263 |
| Transcript | Further refinement 011 the available information concerning the tipping factor is suggested by a recent large-Bcale Florida study.. The involved made it possible to avoid a confusing factor that was in m,any previous studies: the presence of effects from both school desegregation and residential desegregation. Because of this mixture in previous tipping factor studies, it has been difficult to tell if white flight has resulted from increase of black percentage in the school, in the neighborhood, or in both. In the Florida study, each of the seven school districts was county-wide, had a local pattern of residential segr,egation, and court-ordered busing that produced school desegregation acro.ss neighborood lines.E,ach district, too" was surrounded by other districts that also were in the process of similar desegregation. White flight a'ccelerated the first year after a given school reached the 30 per cent minority level and gradually declined thereafter. The flight of families with bused students was no greater than that of those with pedestrian students. However, it was greater for higher income families than for lower income families. The researchers concluded that whit,e flight is les.s when movement to a nearby all-white suburban school district is not an option available to most white families with chHdren assigned to desegregated schools. And, efforts to. maintain minority enrollment at 80 per cent or less in each school is a rational policy for minimizing resegregation and achieving stable minority-majority proportions in the schools.H The survey team concluded that a range of 10 to 30 per cent for minority enrollment provides a desirable "band" for desegregation. In other words, this band offers the optimum potential for meaningful minority-majority interaction without precipitous white flight. The team also noted that practical faetors- such as the geographical extensiveness of a school district and des.egregation status in a district wi th to surrounding distri,e1i--must be taken into account since they influence the amount of white flight t or school popUlation instability, that may occur. The survey team employed the 10 to 30 per cent band concept and four other "implementing directives" in its rationale for (a) determining what further desegregation is needed in the Fort Wayne Community Schools~ and (b) guiding the formulation of alternative approaches. The extent to which individual Ylbid. 246 |
