Reducing Children’s Exposure to School Bus Diesel Exhaust in One School District in North Carolina

This chapter describes Chambers's return to North Carolina in July 1964, and his success in quickly elevating North Carolina to the forefront of the LDF's national litigation campaign to translate provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to overcome racial segregation in public accommodation, schools, and employment. Chambers, who opened his small office in Charlotte the same week that Lyndon Johnson signed the new Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, quickly assumed leadership of the Legal Redress Committee of the North Carolina NAACP, which had long spearheaded civil rights litigation in the state. Chambers barnstormed North Carolina to inform black citizens of their rights and prospective new remedies afforded by the Civil Rights Act and soon launched a spate of new legal actions targeting the state's largest school district and employers. In January of 1965, as Chambers addressed a rally at a black church in New Bern, his car was dynamited; local legal authorities showed little enthusiasm to prosecute the Klan-affiliated assailants.

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Parent Expectation Of A Walking School Bus Program Offered Through A Public School District In Nebraska

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ◽

10.1249/00005768-200605001-00980 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 38 (Supplement) ◽

pp. S21

Author(s):

Scott A. Unruh ◽

Kate Heelan

Keyword(s):

Public School ◽

School District ◽

School Bus ◽

Public School District ◽

Parent Expectation ◽

Walking School Bus

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Vehicle Self-Pollution Intake Fraction: Children's Exposure to School Bus Emissions

Environmental Science & Technology ◽

10.1021/es040377v ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 39 (8) ◽

pp. 2559-2563 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Julian D. Marshall ◽

Eduardo Behrentz

Keyword(s):

School Bus ◽

Intake Fraction ◽

Children’S Exposure

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Equalizing Resources vs. Retaining Black Political Power: Paradoxes of an Urban-Suburban School District Merger in Durham, North Carolina, 1958–1996

History of Education Quarterly ◽

10.1017/heq.2018.50 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 35-64

Author(s):

Esther Cyna

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

School District ◽

Economic Transition ◽

Historical Context ◽

Suburban School District ◽

County Commissioners ◽

Consolidated School ◽

The City ◽

City Schools ◽

City Systems

Two separate school districts—a city one and a county one—operated independently in Durham, North Carolina, until the early 1990s. The two districts merged relatively late compared to other North Carolina cities, such as Raleigh and Charlotte. In Durham, residents in both the county and city systems vehemently opposed the merger until the county commissioners ultimately bypassed a popular vote. African American advocates in the city school district, in particular, faced an impossible trade-off: city schools increasingly struggled financially because of an inequitable funding structure, but a merger would significantly threaten fair racial representation on the consolidated school board. This article explores this core tension in historical context by looking at several failed merger attempts from 1958 to 1988, as well as the 1991 merger implementation, against the backdrop of desegregation, economic transition, profound metropolitan changes, and protracted political battles in Durham.

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Children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and violence: Implications for Black student middle school literacy in Charlotte, North Carolina

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies ◽

10.1080/17450128.2012.668231 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 60-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laurie A. Garo

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

North Carolina ◽

Black Student ◽

Neighborhood Poverty ◽

Middle School Literacy ◽

Children’S Exposure

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Parents’ Perceptions of the Rural School Bus Ride

The Rural Educator ◽

10.35608/ruraled.v27i1.500 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rob Ramage ◽

Aimee Howley

Keyword(s):

School District ◽

Young Children ◽

Rural School ◽

Interview Data ◽

School Bus ◽

School And Community ◽

Community Trust ◽

And Behavior

This article reports findings from a study of the perceptions of parents about the experience of long bus rides on their children. Twenty-six parents, whose homes were located on the longest bus route in a rural Midwestern school district, provided interviews regarding the experiences of a total of 37 students. In the analysis of the interview data, three themes emerged: (1) atmosphere on the bus, (2) length of the bus ride, and (3) safety. Notably parents expressed concerns about the fact that long bus rides exposed their young children to the unsuitable language and behavior of older students.Support for this study was provided by the Rural School and Community Trust, to whom the authors offer sincere thanks.

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