Excerpt from Report No, 3, Vol. 1: To the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts on Boston School Desegregation

This is the Third Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation, filed by the Massachusetts Board of Education and Commissioner of Education under the Orders of Disengagement entered by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. on December 23, 1982. The report covers Boston Public School operations from December 1983 through May 1984, and is based upon data collected by Massachusetts Department of Education monitors during this period.

We feel that the present report represents an improvement over our prior efforts, resulting from our growing familiarity with the Boston system and the continued input of the parties and other interested members of the public. The spirit of cooperation continues to deepen between monitors and their counterparts in Boston, for which we express appreciation to Superintendent Spillane and members of his staff.

Third Monitoring Report

As has previously been the case, this report is presented in two volumes. Volume I is an "executive summary" of findings in each of the twelve monitoring areas enumerated in the Orders of Disengagement. In addition to a description of objectives, procedures, findings and recommendations, all of which were contained in previous reports, each section of Volume I contains a summary of previous findings to provide a gauge of progress during the period of State Board monitoring. Volume I will, as in the past, receive wide distribution.

Volume II includes all supporting documentation, much of which was provided to monitors by members of the Boston School Department. Page references to Volume II are again provided in the margins of Volume I. While Volume II is again intended to receive more limited distribution, additional copies have been printed to insure that they may be available for every elementary, middle and high school building in Boston.

Critical Monitoring Issues

In the overview of Report No. 2, the State Board identified six desegregation-related issues of greatest concern, and noted that "Efforts to address these issues in the next twelve months will provide a basis on which to evaluate proposals for further procedural modifications, " which any party may propose after January 1, 1985

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