D. At the start of the 1969-70 school year, In accordance with this Decree the Amaryllis Park, Booker Elementary Schools shall be phased out and all students shall be transferred to the then existing elementary schools lying north of the present Osprey school district. Faculty shall be transferred to the elementary schools in the County. E. A single system of non-racial attendance zone shall otherwise be continued for all grades and all other schools of the Sarasota County System. F. Phases C and D of this Article are recognized to be dependent upon the availability of necessary construction funds and in the event such funds are unavailable the Defendant shall submit to the Court an alternate constitutional plan. A. ASSIGNMENT TO SCHOOL IN ZONE OF RESIDENCE Regardless of any previous attendance at another school, each student must be assigned to the school serving his zone of residence, and may be transferred to another school only in those cases which meet the following requirements. 1. Transfer for special needs should be permitted upon showing the existence of any one or more of the following reasons: a. b. C. A student who requires a course of study not offered at the school serving his zone Exceptional education students, such as physically handicapped, mentally retarded, or gifted 45-619 O-75-4 Where a hardship exists and before and after school supervision is involved d. The sixth, ninth, and twelfth graders to f. Psychological recommendation for reason of pupil-parent adjustment Student who moves into school district with in ninety days 9. h.' Recommendation from Board of Public Instruc tion of another county. Temporarily living out of the district 2. Minority transfer policy. The defendants shall on request permit any student to transfer from a school where students of his race are a majority to a school within the system where students of his race are in a minority, and they may assign students on such basis. B. In September of 1967, students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades who would have otherwise been attending Booker Senior High School shall be assigned by the Defendants to Riverview and Sarasota High Schools so that the number of Negroes in both high schools shall be roughly equal. The present Booker Senior High School District shall be divided into two districts to accomplish this result. C. In September of 1968, students in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades who would have otherwise been attending Booker Junior High School shall be transferred to McIntosh Student Center, Sarasota Junior High and Brookside Junior High so that the number of Negroes in each school shall be roughly equal. The present Booker Junior High School District shall be divided into three districts so as to accomplish this result. D. In September of 1969, students in grades 1 through 6 who would have otherwise been attending Booker Elementary School shall be transferred to the ten northern most elementary schools In the County so that the number of Negroes in each school shall be roughly equal. The present Booker Elementary District shall be divided into districts so as to accomplish this result. A. ||| NOTICE Individual Notice. On a convenient date not. later than two weeks after the execution of this Order (and in February of 1968 and 1969), the Defendants shall distribute by first class mail a letter to the parent or other adult person acting as parent of each student who is then enrolled in any of the Booker Districts for grades 1 through 9 informing such parent of the minority transfer policy above described. All of these letters shall be mailed on the same day, and shall be in a form set forth In Appendix A, attached hereto. The same letter and notice shall also be furnished in person or by mail to the parent of each prospective student, including each student planning to enter the first grade, as soon as the Defendants learn of any plans to enroll in any of the Booker Complex schools. Each pupil, if he desires to transfer under this policy, shall elect to do so within 30 days after the mailing date of said letter. four weeks and six weeks after the period in which pupils may exercise their option to transfer under the minority transfer policy, the Defendant shall distribute by first class mail a letter to the parent or other adult person acting as parent of each student who has opted to transfer, giving the name and location of the school to which the student has been assigned for the coming year pursuant to the desegregation plan, and information concerning the bus service, if any, between his school and his neighborhood. Between B. Publish Notice. The Defendant shall arrange for the conspicuous publication of an announcement which shall contain the text of the notice provided for under 111 A above in both the morning and evening papers most generally circulated in the community upon or shortly before the date of mailing under 11 A above. Publication as a legal notice is not sufficient. IV FACULTY ASSIGNMENTS As the senior high school, junior high school and elementary grades now located on the Booker Campus are phased out and students are transferred to other schools in the county system, the faculty shall be assigned to the existing schools in the county system without regard to race, color or creed. In effectuating such a transfer the Defendants shall make no discriminating demotions of faculty personnel and the Defendant shall continue to assist them in the performance of their duties. In the interim period prior to September, 1969, Defendants shall continue the policy of assigning Negro staff to schools other than on the Booker Campus to the end that each school shall have a ratio of white and Negro teachers approximately equal to the ratio of white and Negro teachers in the County. A. V Between four weeks and six weeks after the Defendants have notified the parents of pupils of the designation of the school to which they have been assigned, the Defendants shall report to the Court and opposing counsel the number of students electing to transfer under the minority transfer policy and the schools to which said pupils have been assigned. Within one month after district boundaries have been established by the Defendants, they shall report to the Court and serve opposing counsel with maps of the district boundaries of all of the school districts in the County which shall include the breakdown of the Booker Districts for assignment to the various schools under this plan. C. No later than October 15th of each year, the Defendants shall report to the Court and serve opposing counsel with a statistical report for each school in the County system showing the number of Negro and white students enrolled and showing the number of Negro and white teachers. D. Within two weeks after the date of this Order, Defendant shall file with the Court and opposing counsel a copy of the present attendance zone maps and the statistics showing the present number of Negro and white students and faculty in each school within the County. VI SERVICES, FACILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS No student shall be segregated or discriminated against on account of race or color in any service, facility, activity, or program (including transportation, athletics, or other extra curricular activity) that may be conducted or sponsored by or affiliated with the school in which he is enrolled. A student attending school for the first time on a desegregated basis may not be subject to any disqualification or waiting period for participating in activities and programs, including athletics, which might otherwise apply because he is a transfer or newly assigned student. All school use or school-sponsored use of athletic fields, meeting rooms and all other school related services, facilities, activities, and programs such as Commencement exercises and parent-teacher meetings which are open to persons other than enrolled students, shall be open to all persons without regard to race or color. All special education programs conducted by the Defendants shall be conducted without regard to race or color. VII SCHOOL EQUALIZATION Remedial Programs. The Defendants shall continue to provide remedial education programs which permit students attending or who have previously attended all-Negro schools to overcome past inadequacies in their education. VIII NEW CONSTRUCTION The Defendants, to the extent consistent with the proper operation of the school system as a whole, shall continue to locate any new school and substantially expand any existing schools with the objective of eradicating the vestiges of the dual system and of eliminating the effects of segregation. Commencing in September of 1969, and prior there to to the extent that classroom space is available, the Amaryllis Park and the Booker Schools shall be used for a county-wide kindergarten program, special education classes and Head Start program. This provision of the Order is not mandatory but is merely explanatory of the current plans of the Defendants to utilize the Booker and Amaryllis Park schools. IX Any student residing in the Booker Districts for grades 1 through 9 who elects to transfer under the minority transfer |