Abstract & Commentary
(from Newsweek , Summer, 1997)
Predictably, a far greater proportion of black students get bused from the inner city to suburban schools - thanks largely to the Supreme Court's 1973 Milliken vs. Bradley decision, which struck down "metropolitan" busing plans that moved students from suburban into urban school districts. The closing of financially strapped black schools and the firing and demotion of black educators have also accelerated the growth of separate and unequal schooling.