In 1994, the Long Beach Unified School District in Calif. adopted a mandatory homogenous contract in some of its schools, making it the first urban district to do so. The adoption of edifice uniforms for every 200,000 students by the metropolis Board of Education in May, 2000 was another landmark. Though open edifice homogenous use is not widespread, it is growing.

* Although the states with the most students who wear edifice uniforms are the five big population states: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas, the ten cities with the most students in homogenous are actually in eight different states and the District of Columbia:

o Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA

o New York City, NY

o Houston, TX

o Philadelphia, PA

o Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

o Washington, DC

o New Orleans, LA

o Detroit, MI

o Jacksonville, FL

o Atlanta, GA

* Schools in 21 states and the District of river have some sort of homogenous requirements.

* Some cities have widespread homogenous use in their open schools:

o 95% of New Orleans' open schools require uniforms

o 85% of Cleveland's open schools require uniforms

o 80% of Chicago's open schools require uniforms

o 65% of Boston's open schools require uniforms

o 60% of Miami's open schools require uniforms

o 50% of Cincinnati's open schools require uniforms

* After the first open edifice began using uniforms, there was a considerable increase in the use of uniforms, partly oxyacetylene by President Bill Clinton mentioning the benefits of edifice uniforms in his inaugural address in 1996, as indicated in a inform from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES):

o Prior to the 1994-1995 edifice assemblage only about three-quarters of digit proportionality of students in the US were required to wear uniforms.

o By the 1996-1997 edifice year, that number had accumulated about four-fold to 3 percent. • A marketing research group, NDP Group, Inc., reported that school-uniform income were valued at $900 meg in 1999 and rose 22% to $1.1 1000000000 in 2000.

* The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) conducted a phone survey of 755 principals in 2000, which revealed that:

o 21% of every open schools had a homogenous contract

o 23% of every public, private, and sectarian schools either had a homogenous policy, were in the process of creating one, or had firm plans in place to create one.

o 71% of the 755 schools represented did not require uniforms and were not considering requiring them.

* A housing study of the personalty of adopting edifice uniforms in Long Beach, CA which appeared in Psychology Today in September, 1999, reported the following personalty from the switch to uniforms in 1995:

o Overall, the crime rate dropped by 91%

o School suspensions dropped by 90%

o Sex offenses were reduced by 96%

o Incidents of vandalism went down 69%

* Also news on the Long Beach Unified School District, an Education Week article in 1998 reported that since 1994, assaults in grades Kindergarten through 8 had decreased by 85%.