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Volume I contains the substance of five studies originally filed with the United States District Court for the District of Arizona in the cases of "Fisher v. Lohr" and "Mendoza v. Tucson School District No. 1." Study I determines patterns of attendance at several elementary schools by non-Mexican American and Mexican American students residing in the same geographic area between 1920 and 1950. Results of data, which were re-analyzed following submittal in the Witness Statement, are incorporated in chart form and a new summary of findings. Study II shows that in the total context of residential patterns in the Holladay neighborhood, the Tucson Public Schools maintained a neutral and non-discriminatory role in setting the Holladay School boundaries from 1949 to 1974. Study III determines patterns of permanence or residence mobility (1949-1974) in the Holladay School neighborhood among Spanish-surnamed households. Study IV determines patterns of student attendance at Holladay School (1955-1967) as a means for judging whether a given student population was in any sense "contained" within the attendance boundaries. Results of Study V, originally filed as part of the Supplemental Witness Statement on October 26, 1976 and re-studied in light of Study I's findings, are incorporated in this publication. (NQA)

Volume II contains the substance of five studies originally filed with the United States District Court for the District of Arizona in the cases of "Fisher v. Lohr" and "Mendoza v. Tucson School District No. 1." Study VI examines the migration of Spanish-surnamed households from Tucson's south and west sides to the east side from 1946-1965, and their subsequent residence to 1975. In Study VIII, the differential dispersion of Spanish-surnamed households into Tucson's east side from the west and south sides in the mid-1950's is investigated. Study VIII explores the recent immigration of alien Mexicans as a significant factor in the impaction of Spanish-surnamed people in certain parts of Tucson during 1976. The "Platoon System" (1923-1942), an effort at special programming to meet language needs beyond the 1-C grade, is discussed in Study IX, which was undertaken as a companion to two other studies to increase understanding of the problems of programming for language differences in the 1920's and 1930's and to clarify the solutions sought in those decades. Begun after the trial commenced on January 11, 1977, the last study examines the Menlo Park School ethnicity patterns from 1918 to 1946. (NQA)