Word: overcrowdedness
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Every week for the past month, the parents of 327 Roxbury children have been shelling out $1,260 to get their kids to school in the morning. They are paying for school buses to carry their children out of overcrowded heavily Negro schools, threatened this fall with double sessions, to...
Hooverville shanties went out with the 1930s, and Government-subsidized apartments are climbing skyward in the slums, but most of the poor continue to suffer mean and overcrowded shelter. The 1960 census listed 15.6 million of the nation's 58 million houses and apartments as substandard -including 3,000...
Obviously the Tenth House will not be able to serve its stated purpose: to relieve crowding in the older Houses. Unless droves of students are allowed to live off campus each year--a prospect everyone connected with the House system deplores--deconversion of overcrowded suites will be impossible even after...
Classes may be out for most of the nation's youngsters, but for many parents the plotting and pushing to wedge their children into the right schools is a year-round ordeal. As urban public schools become increasingly flawed by overcrowded classes, poorly prepared teachers and racial imbalance, many...
Problems for "the blacks" are most noticeable in residential neighborhoods. Though their children attend unsegregated schools, they are often last in line for the cities' already desperately overcrowded public housing, barred from private apartments and boardinghouses by "No Colored" signs, and forced to pay rates of up to 10...