the other hand, had a more La Point 8successful result. The magnet schools offered advanced programs and enhanced curriculums that were designed to attract the most intelligent of all races. Because the academic requirements were high; there was a quota for the number of students admitted, and added financial costs, voluntary participation was limited (Blausterin 122-129). In December 1977, the Seattle, Washington school board voted to approve aComprehensive citywide student assignment plan, “designed to desegregate the city’s 112 schools over a two-year period called the Seattle Plan. Seattle set a national record. No other major American city has voluntarily adopted a comprehensive mandatory program of school desegregation. The Seattle school board took this unprecedented action to avoid a threatened lawsuit and years of court (Futtrell 53). During 1963, mostly black students chose to transfer to white schools under the freedom-of-choice plan. In September 1972, middle schools were desegregated using busing as a means of desegregation. The Seattle school board provided that the desegregation plan should: *place no greater burden on minority than majority students*provide for desegregation within schools as well as between schools*preserve and enhance schools already integrated *include grades K-12La Point 9Because the voluntary plans were not working, mandatory plans were enacted.The most controversial of these was busing. In 1971, the Supreme Court decision of Swann vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education, it was determined that busing could be used to help desegregate schools. The Charlotte-Meckelnburg County in North Carolina became the first school district in the nation to undertake a court ordered plan involving systemwide busing as a tool to help achieve racial desegregati...
