Word: programming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Riles has been a state education official for twelve years, four of them as Rafferty's assistant superintendent. Federal officials regard his program of dispensing funds to disadvantaged youngsters as one of the best in the country. Presidents Johnson and Nixon appointed him chairman of two task forces on urban education...
Below Norms. While Rafferty has stressed emotional issues like drugs and busing, Riles concentrates on education. He notes that a recent evaluation showed that statewide gains in reading have still left 65% of the first, second-and third-graders below national norms. His proposed remedy: make a preschool program available to every California child. He also feels that teaching reading mainly through old-fashioned phonics, which Rafferty favors, is oversimple, and that many students can benefit from other methods...
...Leonard. "It will absorb as much energy as I have." He has plenty. Thin, dark blond, wearing horn-rims and rumpled clothes, he walks with a schoolmaster stoop, chain-smokes and has a disarmingly direct way of tackling almost anything. Four years ago, he tutored pupils in an antipoverty program in Roxbury, Mass.; in the same year, he worked with migrant labor gangs in a New England apple orchard...
Core of the crisis was a special program approved at the 1967 Seattle convention-an openhanded, openminded plan to channel substantial cash to minority groups and projects, with the exception of those that advocate violence. Thus the most controversial grant approved by the church's Executive Council was an award of $40,000 last year to the Alianza de los Pueblos Libres, a militant group of Mexican-Americans in New Mexico. The Alianza came to national attention in 1967 when its head, Reies Lopez Tijerina, led a raid on a county courthouse in which a jailer and a state...
...into resistance after three leaders of the group were charged with conspiracy to blow up oil storage tanks during a riot. Louisville Bishop C. Gresham Marmion asked that the grant be deferred until the three had been tried, but Leon Modeste, the black layman who directs the Special Program, made the grant on schedule. In North Carolina, a $30,000 grant to the Malcolm X Liberation University created a furor when the local bishop was denied a voice in passing on the grant. Episcopalians in his diocese cut their contributions by one-third...