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In the controversy over busing, integrationist blacks and angry whites agree on one thing: North and South, big-city public schools are terrible. Blacks want their children to escape from the schools' exasperating syndrome of failure and disorder; whites fear that their children will have to suffer from it...
Deadline. In 1965 the state passed a Racial Imbalance Act, which decreed that no school could have more than 50% nonwhite students and therefore, by implication, that blacks must be spread out into white schools. The only result was that the number of predominantly black schools kept increasing (from 45...
Chairman Hennigan remained unmoved. "The people of this city do not want realignment of school districts," he said. "We are an elected board, and it would fly in the face of the voters for us to change the school lines." His judgment of the popular view was soon corroborated by...
"Fraudulent." Last week, before TV cameras and an overflow crowd of more than 1,500 spectators, the state legislature's education committee opened hearings on 19 proposals to alter the Imbalance Act. The lead speaker, fittingly enough, was Mrs. Hicks, who once again praised "neighborhood schools," denounced "intellectual bureaucrats...
Repeal seems highly unlikely, however, and despite President Nixon's speech, pro-integration officials emphasize that HEW never asked for new busing. It asks a new plan, which could include new schools, new district boundaries, or new routes for present buses. As one official observes: "HEW can't...