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...Office of Education is in the process of axing aid to another 185 segregated Southern school systems, eventually may end up denying funds to more than 400 districts serving a to tal of at least 1,000,000 children. At the same time, HEW is getting tough with segregated hospitals. It has scheduled hearings with an eye to ending all fed eral aid, including construction and research funds, to 17 or so Southern hospitals. Up to now, some 340 hospitals have been denied requests for new funds, notably Medicare payments, but none has been cut off from federal aid altogether...
Although they point out that all but a handful of Southern school districts assured HEW in the spring of 1965 that schools were being desegregated, the fact is that Southern school districts have by and large preserved separate schools for whites and Negroes...
...desegregation plans that local school boards submitted to HEW prior to this year's guidelines gave any promise that dual systems of education would ever be eliminated. Even court-ordered desegregation plans -- which are still automatically acceptable under the guidelines -- simply provide that increasing numbers of Negro pupils will be allowed to transfer to formerly all-white schools, though whites and Negroes will otherwise be assigned to the same schools they have always attended...
...HEW's 1966 guidelines strike at the heart of the problem. The department has said it expects desegregation plans to work, that school districts should have a "substantial" number of Negroes in school with whites. The department has also asked that a start be made towards integrating teaching staffs, so that eventually no school in a system could be labelled Negro or white according to the racial composition of its staff...
Quite possibly, it would have been politically advisable for Mansfield to keep silent during the attacks on HEW, rather than leaping to the defense of the guidelines. But his recent statement will only encourage Wallace and like-thinkers North and South. Equally important, it will encourage continued foot-dragging by Southern school officials, who because of their own prejudice or fear of political reprisals have done no more than allow a few Negroes to transfer to formerly all-white schools...