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The ongoing desegregation effort involving city and suburban school districts in the St. Louis metropolitan area has been widely hailed as an ambitious and largely successful undertaking. A much different picture emerges in this study of the financial and political dialogue affecting programs introduced to city schools. The value of programs has been overstated, and much more attention has been paid to showcase integrated schools than to schools whose student bodies have remained predominantly Black. The school desegregation effort is better understood as a ritual that softened the effects of reductions to the city school system and legitimized the view that many minority children could not handle more ambitious academic programs.

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In the Black: School Desegregation and the Politics of Fiscal Redemption

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