European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes Friday August 8,1986 suit accuses . Of discrimination in school system los Angeles up the nation s second largest school District has deprived poor minority children of an equal education became it allocates More resources to affluent White neighbourhoods than to  minority areas a discrimination suit contends. Trie Superior court Suil filed wednes Day by Public interest lawyers accuses i he los Angeles unified school District Board of violating the stale Constitution by depriving Cipnic minorities and the poor of sufficient educational resources. Resources Are unequally distribute such that Black latino and other ethnic minorities and Tess affluent students gel less resources such As Money facilities and instructional staff when compared i schools that serve predominantly while or More affluent  lawyer Richard Fajardo said. Los Angeles unified is the second largest school District in the nation and one of the country s most ethnically diverse. Of the 578,760 students enrolled in the District in 1985, s4 percent were hispanic 19 percent Black 19 percent while and 6 percent asian District spokesman Bill Boscn said. Citing figures from an Independent study by school Board staff the lawyers said predominantly White elementary school receive $417 More per student than predominantly minority elementary schools. In Junior High the difference is s240 and in High school s197, Fajardo represents he mexican Amer ican Legal defense and education fund which was joined in the suit by the american civil liberties Union the Legal Aid foundation and other Public interest Law firms. Assistant superintendent Jerry Hal Virson said Fajardo oversimplified the monetary formula used to allocate re sources. He said the District actually spends Aboul 51,000 More per student per year in minority neighbourhoods than White areas. Fajardo said a pattern of discrimination can be seen in the ethnic makeup or the 10 District schools thai spend the least per Pupil and the 10 that spend the most. In the 10 schools thai spend the Leas per Pupil 96 percent of the students Are minorities and 4 percent Are White. In the 10 schools that spend the most 33 percent arc while and 67 percent arc minority Fajardo said. The Suil seeks to Force the school District to adopt a plan thai would provide for fair allocation of resources Fajardo said. In senior and Junior High schools that have adopted year round schedules to ease overcrowding 82 percent of the Stu dents arc latino he said. Blacks makeup 6.3 percent asians 5.8 percent and whiles 5.5 percent he said. Chock full o nuts a Quality control worker checks Al monds at the Bine Diamond factory in St unto Calif. The company s new product Almond butter i Tian to Amelia s current passion Tor gourmet style Peanut butter. He s so vane this Wall Tamuk fetched $85,000 at an auction thursday in Bolton mass. Made to the 19th Century the Copper sculpture depicts chief n p muck. Of the Matuu Coquet tribe. Texas governor seeks tax hike budget cuts to end fiscal crunch Austin Tinas up saying that texans face the hardest limes of our lives gov. Mark Whit wednesday called on the Texas legislature to pass an emergency temporary increase in the Sale lax Cut government spending substantially and trim the pay of stale employee 3  made the plea at the opening of a special session of the Texas legislature summoned to find a Way tout the Texas budget Back into balance. The collapse of world Oil prices has icel the Texas Treasury close to insolvency and the once booming slate facing some or the same fiscal agonies that once afflicted the Northern Industrial  s Call for higher taxes set the stage far a dra Matic tug of War Between the Texas Senate which favors new taxes and the House leadership which vowed wednesday id avoid imposing any new taxes on tenons at least until after the november election. Calling for higher taxes at a Lime when unemployment in Texas has reached a Post depression High,12.5 percent in june poses considerable political risk for White a Democrat who faces a Lough Challenge Forre election to a second term from former gov. Bill Clements a Republican who has vowed to veto any new taxes i selected the lawmakers. White said were faced with the Lough Choice of raising taxes or turning Back on recent progression Public education social services and Highway construction. While Hai made improvement in Public education the Cornerstone or his administration. He said he a proposing cuts that were deep and painful and it would be irresponsible to go any  to pointed out that residents of texts which it Odeon four states with neither corporate Dot personal in come taxes pay leu in taxes than the residents of 42 other slates while opposes an income  Texas fiscal crisis was caused by the plunge of Oil prices from about 12s a barrel last december to a Range of from Siolo 115 in recent months. As Rece Tlyas my. At the height of the Tenas Oil Boom Oil too. Gas production taxes accounted Tor 28 percent of tale la Revenue giving texans something of a free ride. But this year it is expected to drop to 12 percent. Said tax receipts have also plunged. The immediate problem is to balance As required bythe state Constitution the current two year budget of 537.2 billion that ends aug. 31, 1987. Slate comptroller Bob Bullock estimated recently that Revenue would fall j3.s billion Short of which jj.9 billion would be i general Revenue controlled by the legislature the governor is also asking the lawmakers to cancel a 3 percent pay raise for slate workers and Roll their pay Back by another 3 percent which he said would save $191 million. He said his proposed spending cuts would result in the Layoff of about 4,500 state employ acc Lowers profit margins for phone companies Washington a the Federal communications commission lowered. American Telephone & Telegraph co s allowable profit margin from interstate Telephone operations from 12.75 percent to 12.2 percent thursday. The commission lowered from 12.75 percent to 12 percent the maximum profit margin local Telephone companies can earn for providing connections to Tang distance companies. Commission chairman Mark s. Fowler said the two roves will save Telephone users $600 million a year. Most of the savings will be fell by at to interstate Long distance users. Leased private line charges will also be lowered. The rate will be reconsidered in two years. The acc meeting was held an hour earlier than usual so the commission could act before the opening of the Stock exchanges. At to spokesman Herb Linnen said the company was unhappy with the rate and was weighing an Appeal. He said the towered profit margin  necessarily mean immediate reductions in Long distance charges but could be translated into delays in future increases. The 12.2 percent rate of return will apply to All local companies although some had argued that special compel iliac situations make the phone business riskier in some pans of the country than in others making it More difficult to raise capital without promising a higher rate of return to investors. The chairman said he believes toe new lower rates will still yield a very solid return on equity for at to and the Exchange carriers and also provide proper incentives to innovate and Cut