School segregation increased between 1976 and 1980 after early progress

Evidence

The level of school segregation may, in fact, be worsening because of white enrollment losses, court rulings disallowing “metropolitan plans” that consolidate city and suburban school districts, and the apparent effective end of pressure under the Reagan administration to use busing as a remedy for school segregation. Indeed, one recent investigation concluded that, after noteworthy progress in reducing isolation in the schools between 1968 and 1976, “Overall, segregation slightly increased between 1976 and 1980” (Hochschild, 1984, p. 31). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3350

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Small residential minority increases greatly amplify into public school resegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 588