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> Bell has opposed court decisions calling for busing to achieve school desegregation.
Desegregation works. That was the major conclusion of a report the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued last August. The $2.3 million study (TIME, Sept. 6) declared that despite headlines about busing violence, 82% of the nation's school districts have desegregated without serious disruption, and only 10% report...
Because these two well-known politicians with bona fide liberal credentials supported him, Markey soon became known as the liberal who had an outside chance of winning. But on two issues his liberal support nearly fell apart. Markey supports a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion, and opposes busing to achieve...
All the while, Danforth crisscrossed the state in a red-white-and-blue Chevy van. The candidates took similar stands on several important issues-against school busing, abortion, handgun registration and public works projects to reduce unemployment. But from the beginning, the campaign focused on character. Scarred by a grand...
Apart from busing, perhaps the most controversial public school issue of the day is "mainstreaming," the growing practice of integrating physically and mentally handicapped children into regular classes. Until the past few years, most such children, if they received any formal education at all, did so only in special classes...