The Nation - News from Dec. 11, 1985

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights agreed to investigate whether a $475,000 study it ordered on school desegregation is biased against the use of busing to integrate schools. One prominent scholar, Prof. Gary Orfield of the University of Chicago, resigned from the study and told the commission he would continue to urge school districts not to cooperate with the study until its defects were remedied. Orfield charged that the study, approved by the conservative commission majority, was technically flawed and biased against the use of busing to achieve school desegregation.