European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page it the stars and stripes saturday september 7,1968 racial problems Plag editor s note because of population and housing Pat terns de Facto segregation Inmany Northern school systems has Long been recognized As problem. As a new school year opens a Survey of some majorities shows that some old Rem Edies Are being de emphasized while new approaches Are be ing tried. A by Hal Cooper new York a a crazy quilt of problems has emerged from a Survey of big North Ern cities faced with worsening racial imbalance in school enrolments and teaching staffs. Attempts to end student segregation by bussing children Back and Forth Between predominantly negro and predominantly White school districts have run afoul of protests by parents of both races As Well As the courts. In some metropolitan areas Blacks of school age outnumber their White counterparts by so wide a margin that few if any predominantly White schools Are left to be desegregated. The Washington . School sys tem for example is 93 per cent authorities seek ing to improve faculty stand Ards in ghetto schools by arbitrary shifting of teacher assign ments Are threatened with mass resignations or work Black leaders have shifted their emphasis from de segregating student bodies to improving the Quality of slum schools. Black activists almost everywhere Are demanding a measure of educational Home Rule for predominantly negro areas in which neighbourhood committees would have a Strong voice on How the schools should be run. A Battle Over such a proposal has led to the threat of a strike by new York City teacher when the schools open sept. 9. The disputed plan authorized by the state legislature and backed by some non Whites an mayor John v. Lindsay would create neighbourhood school boards with Power to hire and fire new York Board of Edu cation is against it and the United federation of teachers aft Union says there will Bea walkout if the plan goes into effect. Of new York s 1.1 Mil lion school children just Over half Are negro or puerto , wash., is considering the establishment of a sort of auxiliary Black school Board to oversee the operation of school sin areas where the population is mainly supt. Forbes Bottomly said the i Ian will receive Clos study but we Don t want to get bound up in Power plans of adults with political consider Philadelphia the Board of education is setting up what i Calls Community advisory boards composed of neighbor Hood citizens. A spokesman for the school system said such boards would have some authority Over selecting and evaluating the principals of their schools and the curriculum they would not have total Community control but would work hand in Han with the the Indianapolis school boar was cited in a Justice depart ment court action alleging racial discrimination in both school enrolment and faculty assignments. The Board denies the Allega Tion but has announced it will reassign 204 of its 4,700 tethers in Art attend to faculties of selected school the announcement was followed by the resignation of 149 teachers an the threat of a mass walkout. In St. Louis where 70 per Centof Grade school students Are negroes school supt. Or. Wil Liam Kottmeyer recently re marked the Plain fact is we Haven t got enough White Chil Dren left in St. Louis to make a integrated school the St. Louis school boar appealed to suburban districts to accept negro students fro the City but found no takers. Demosthenes Duboes negro president of the St. Louis teach ers Union said that among lacks there is now less emphasis on integration than upgrading schools in negro disillusionment with tire results of bussing Black Stu dents to predominantly Whit schools has cropped up in Many areas. In Norwalk conn., a group of negroes and puerto Picans went to court in an Effort to Force the reopening of an elementary school closed because enrolment was almost entirely students have since been bussed to White schools in other District j it the plaintiffs say this arrangement has proved in convenient to the children and their Ter equal tiffs set boyhood fat ends have things Are i but not the Black parents he adds because their Power is diluted among Many school Sand because the schools the Black kids go to Are often sever Al Miles from los Angeles has created five special High school instructional centers aimed mainly at a grading the learning Teyes of students .,.White schools. Buses Are a Mower mar in court injunction Ulory Transfer a one High school to balance out the id the three judge pan Tim nation cannot be or against any .lu1 ,., interned to integrate All a door from the third Grade up won the support of most Civet rights leaders but Gerald Brown spokesman Ora Black Power group said Inte grated schooling is not the answer. Lets have All Black schools with All Black administrators with All Black teachers coaches and Counselor he de mands. Newark nj-j., where about 60per cent of school enrolment isnetto l8 k offering new course son afro american history and stripes Vinnin Cind i a v it mini and monster a vietnamese woman pushed a tiny Sampan along a canal while a huge american assault Craft passes her by inthe Mekong Delta South of Saigon. A photo David Julie blast demonstrations culture and if instructors can be found will teach swahili a Trade and government illan Guage in general use in Kast Africa and the congo.11 Newark was the scene of repeated strident disorders Dur ing be past academic your with negroes demanding More authority Over the schools andean improvement in educational standards. Philadelphia is offering courses in afro american history on a full credit Iasi for the first time. Black militants in Washington won a Federal court decree against what they Char is Cie Facto school segregation but with Only seven White children among each 100 of enrolment no Way has been found to carryout the order. A Token 500 to 600 Black Chil Dren will be bussed this year from overcrowded schools soothers which have some room to is no real pressure for Washington a David views in a news conference at publican party was Young and Community says Julius Nob Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Greenbelt my vital More so than the demo son a leading Black militant in Young chips off the Republican miss Nixon will Campaign for cratic bloc said Here that they under her father taking a semester we re not starchy at All the Washington educational Field. The major focus is on european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa edit or in stand the recent Street Demon off from her studies at Smith she said. We have William Community control of schools stations in Chicago but they College. 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