The process of correcting past practices of racial or any other form of illegal segregation.
In education, the transfer of students from some schools to others to achieve racial balance or to end other kinds of discrimination (such as separation of the handicapped), often mandated by the court in cases of segregation, whether de jure (deliberate and written into law) or de facto (in fact, often by informal social pressures). One major court- mandated approach to de facto segregation has been busing, but more recently some school districts have tried various voluntary methods for achieving desegregation, as through schools of choice and magnet schools.