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...proud. So proud, in fact, that Mr. Kipness and myself personally invested nearly one-third of the entire capitalization. Opening night, the four major television reviews were extremely negative. They were joined by Newsday and the Long Island Press, with their large Long Island following of theatergoers, and the Newark News, which reaches the New Jersey commuters...
...Newark's crumbling schools have fallen behind for years. In 1968, only six out of every 100 pupils were reading above the national norm. Guards have been on hand regularly in the city's 89 schools, vainly attempting to prevent vandalism and racial clashes...
Urban schools are often so bad that despairing parents no longer care whether their children attend. Militant blacks blame city teachers-most of them white, some of them black. Last week these pressures blocked settlement of a savage teacher strike in Newark, already the longest in the history of any major U.S. city. As a result, more than half of Newark's predominantly (80%) black pupils stayed out of school for the tenth straight week...
...year ago, Newark's unionized teachers struck for 16 days. An arbitrator granted their demands for a share of control over class sizes, curriculums and assignments to such nonteaching duties as patrolling halls and lunchrooms. Future disputes were to be hammered out in binding arbitration. But militant, separatist blacks, led by Writer Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), immediately suspected that the union would use its power to block reforms and frustrate "community control...
Clubs and Chains. The militants got a sympathetic ear last July when the election of Newark's new black mayor Kenneth Gibson gave the school board its first majority of blacks and Puerto Ricans. When negotiations on a new teachers' contract began in January, the board balked at renewing the arbitration clause, hoping to strengthen its educational control. The union struck...