Special Collections is pleased to announce that the Carlin Integration Case Records are available for research! The Carlin Integration Case spanned three decades, and sought to improve the ethnic balance and multi-cultural curriculum in San Diego city schools. In 1967, parents filed a class action lawsuit against the San Diego Unified School District for alleged inequalities of educational opportunities for students of all ethnic backgrounds. These inequalities were the result of unfair housing patterns and a neighborhood school policy. The plaintiffs filed the suit in the name of ten children who represented four ethnic groups (Caucasian, African-American, Chicano, and Asian-American).
In 1977, Judge Welsh ordered the San Diego Unified School District to develop a detailed voluntary plan to alleviate racial segregation in twenty-three city schools. Then, in 1978, he created the School Integration Task Force to assess and monitor the school district's progress. In response to Judge Welsh's order, the Board of Education began improving existing school integration programs, and implementing new ones such as the Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment Program, the Magnet Program, and the Race/Human Relations Commission. Although the Board's plan changed the ethnic composition of city schools, very little social integration occurred, and an achievement gap still existed between the Caucasian majority students and the minority students.
The Carlin Integration Case Records include nearly three decades of court proceedings and research regarding segregation in San Diego City Schools. The records include court transcripts, briefs and court orders, correspondence, maps and charts of ethnic imbalance, various committee reports, court exhibits and depositions, declarations, interrogatories, enrollment statistics, student testing result studies, trial notes, news clippings, and information concerning similar court cases. The collection is divided into two series: Research Files and Court Records.
Special Collections is pleased to announce that the Carlin Integration Case Records are available for research! The Carlin Integration Case spanned three decades, and sought to improve the ethnic balance and multi-cultural curriculum in San Diego city schools. 
