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The chances of winning approval for the busing plan are good, Trilling said--especially if it is joined to a program in which educators from Harvard and other universities would work with suburban teachers and principals.
If the two groups merge, Conroy said, all the funds--including the money for busing--would be requested by one university or a committee of universities.
Last week, the Hartford Superintendent of Schools proposed discarding the Harvard plan and substituting "a modest experiment." And in Boston, although 13 suburbs have formed a committee to study busing students from the city, the School Committee has not yet officially decided whether the matter belongs on its agenda.
The bill, Pettigrew said, would remove one of the biggest stumbling blocks to busing students out of large cities--the amount of money a city would remove by busing them. Most state aid to city school systems takes the form of a pupil attendance grant, which would be produced if...
Also under consideration, he added, is a much stronger bill that would permit the federal government to cut off aid to a city or a suburb that refused to take part in such a busing plan.