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School board members in Charleston, S.C., knew that the Department of Justice had been investigating complaints of segregation in the 47,000-student county school system for 14 months. But with the Carter Administration scheduled to leave office on Jan. 20, they naturally assumed that any new civil rights initiatives...
Boston's school committee--for several years the center of controversies on school busing--yesterday elected John D. O'Bryant, the only Black on the panel, as its president.
Six other community schools now operate in Los Angeles, all founded since 1978, when busing was first required in the 710-sq.-mi. school district, and the average busing distance turned out to be 40 miles a day. The new schools are for the most part makeshift: no frills, no...
As an added attraction there is homework every night. Says De Wesse: "My children didn't have that when they went to public school." At Palisades Village School, students write work contracts with their teachers. Parents have much greater control over what is learned and taught. Old-fashioned or...
Despite his fear that programs such as school busing may soon be strangled by conservative hands, the columnist believes that liberals must cooperate to maintain the basic tenets of equal opportunity. Regardless of the resurrection of the Old Right or the birth of the New Right, Lewis plans to beat...