Photo gallery: Desegregation in TUSD
Hearings and meetings about desegregation in 1978 and today's TUSD students looking to the future.
2010: Getting to and from the school of choice
2010: Utterback students take the bus
2010: Early morning ride to school
2010: IB comes to Cholla
2010: Safford as a "magnet" school
1978: Desegregration order filed at federal courthouse
1978: Desegregation press conference
1978: Desegregration meeting
1978: School board desegegation meeting
1978: Grijalva during desegration
1978: Parents meeting
1978: Parents meeting
1978: Long meeting
1978: Parents want their schools kept open
1978: Parents speak their minds
Where TUSD has spent the money has been notoriously difficult to track and full of debatable decisions over the last three decades.
The end of court-ordered desegregation doesn't mean Tucson taxpayers get to stop paying for it.
Cynthia Valenzuela
Sept. 1913: A school for black students opens. State law at the time segregates elementary and middle schools for black students, who then att…
For the first time, the Tucson Unified School District has a formal plan on how to narrow the achievement gap that still exists between Anglo …