Desegregation and Its Implications for Vocational and Career Education R & D. Occasional Paper No. 30.

Based on the issues related to the 1975 desegregation court order issued to the Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools, the author discusses and describes the following three components of Boston's Unified Plan for occupational and vocational education: (1) the implementation of core programs in the eight community districts that together comprise the Boston School System, (2) magnet programs operated on a citywide basis, and (3) the Occupational Resource Center, which will be designed according to a clustering system intended to facilitate the delivery of instruction for occupations that require similar training. Appended are the author's answers to ten questions relating to the implementation of the plan (e.g., What is being done in conjunction with universities? Are quotas established for enrollment in vocational programs? and What is the nature of the bilingual program and how is bilingual defined?) (SH)