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For the first two weeks of court-ordered busing, at the beginning and end of each school day, Charlestown High School has looked like a besieged citadel. It is almost at the top of a hill, on a block facing the Bunker Hill Monument, which one boycotting student sarcastically predicted...
It is impossible to tell if Judge Garrity's desegregation plan has resulted in improved education inside the schools. But outside in the community, the massive police presence has been responsible for the successive days of nearly peaceful court-ordered busing. How long these police will be retained and how...
In Chicago, 27,000 teachers shut down all 666 schools two weeks ago in a dispute over the city's plan to hold its school budget at $1.16 billion by eliminating 1,525 teacher jobs. Other strikes -notably in Pennsylvania, California and Rhode Island-centered on similar worries about...
Since the 1968 strike, Shanker has been accused of retreating from his earlier liberalism. Says a city labor leader: "My disappointment in him is that as the new face in the American labor movement, he adheres to the status quo. He is not innovative in terms of reform." Shanker is...
Using coded numbers referring to prearranged assembly points, a good many of the car-borne rioters cruising the streets when school busing began in the Louisville area a week ago brought a new weapon to the arsenal of the urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized...