Editing Desegregation busing (section)

=== Springfield, Massachusetts ===
Unlike Boston, which experienced a large degree of racial violence following Judge [[Arthur Garrity]]'s decision to desegregate the city's public schools in 1974, Springfield quietly enacted its own desegregation busing plans. Although not as well-documented as Boston's crisis, Springfield's situation centered on the city's elementary schools. Much of the primary evidence for Springfield's busing plans stemmed from a March 1976 report by a committee for the Massachusetts Commission on Civil Rights (MCCR). According to the report, 30 of the city's 36 elementary schools were grouped into six separate districts during the 1974–75 school year, and each district contained at least one racially imbalanced school. The basic idea behind the "six-district" plan was to preserve a neighborhood feeling for school children while busing them locally to improve not only racial imbalances, but also educational opportunities in the school system.<ref name="mccr">Massachusetts Commission on Civil Rights, "[http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr1259.pdf The Six-District Plan: Integration of the Springfield, Mass., Elementary Schools]", ''University of Maryland Law School Library'', pp. 1–50.</ref>