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Sir / I fail to understand the argument about the need for neighborhood schools that is used by those opposed to busing [March 27]. The irony of the whole situation is that we have destroyed neighborhoods all across America. For example, rather than supporting the neighborhood Mom and Pop stores, we...
Sir / For me the unhappiest part of the President's school proposals was their sequence. Had he but placed his recommendations for increased aid to needy schools first and the call for a busing moratorium second, we might have felt that it was deprived schoolchildren and their education that...
Sir / It is fallacious to assume that integration cannot take place without busing children or that busing children will bring about integration during nonschool hours. It is an absolute fact that money spent on busing is money that cannot be spent for education, so education will necessarily suffer, and it...
Berkeley needed new educational ideas as badly as any city. Though it is known for breathtaking hills and its University of California campus, the hills overlook a slough of industrial plants and dilapidated housing. Whites in the Berkeley schools are a 44% minority, with blacks making up 45% of the...