Proposed Resolution of the Central Board

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December 3, 1971

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    PROPOSED RESOLUTION 
CENTRAL BOARD 

December 3, 1971

WHEREAS the Federal District Court has ordered the Detroit Board of 
Education to submit a plan for the desegregation of the 
Detroit Public Schools; and

WHEREAS continuing decreases in the percentages of both white pupils 
and middle income families in Detroit have made effective 
integration within the city limits impossible; and 

WHEREAS the arbitrary city boundaries are not consistent with the
idea that equal opportunity for quality integrated education 
is a responsibility of the total community; and 

WHEREAS it is the policy of this Board to provide high quality
education on an integrated basis for all of its students; and 

WHEREAS in its deliberations the Board has attempted to develop plans 
which would meet the criteria of desegregation, educational 
soundness, equal opportunity, workability, stability, and 
community participation;

THEREFORE, this Board has concluded that the only meaningful solution 
to the problems of racial isolation in Detroit Public Schools 
is the development of a metropolitan plan of desegregation.



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Recognizing that it is the obligation of this Board to present 
desegregation plans to the Court today, we further resolve that as 
alternates the following plans also be submitted to the Court for 
consideration:

PLAN A - Improved Incentives 
PLAN C - Special Humanities Schools

The Board passed a second resolution indicating that although 
both Plans A and C were to be submitted, Plan A has priority 
over Plan C.

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