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Boston School Committee candidates Arthur J. Gartland '36 and Melvin H. King will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Longfellow Hall. Gartland, who ran fifth in last month's primary, is considered the most liberal of the incumbents. King is the only Negro in the ten-man contest, the chief...
So says Mrs. Louise Day Hicks 46 chairman of the five-man Boston School Committee, which sets policy for Boston's public schools. For months she has been waging a determined fight to keep Negroes from busing their children out of the black districts into white neighborhood schools, even...
There is little chance that these recommendations will be followed by the present School Committee. Mrs. Hicks in attacking the report characteristically seized on the suggestion that some Negro students be bused to other schools. In fact, this was only one of the Report's recommendations, and the state Committee...
* Even if it were the Committee's responsibility, any cure would be worse than the disease. In other words, only cross-town busing and an extreme gerrymandering of school zones could change the racial composition of the city's schools.
The School Committee has gathered support by constantly repeating Mrs. Hicks' third assumption, that the cure would be worse than the disease. Few parents, white or negro, want their children bused to an unfamiliar school many miles away from home. However, Mrs. Hicks' exploitation of this issue is dishonest, for...