Word: chicago
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...Chicago weighs a hotly disputed voluntary integration plan...
...going in there wringing my hands," snapped Chicago School Superintendent Joseph P. Hannon last week as he prepared to face critics on the Illinois Board of Education. Concerned about the persistent separation of races in the city's 512,000-student public school system, third largest in the U.S. (after New York City and Los Angeles), the state board put Chicago's schools on probation in 1976. It will take another hard look at segregation in the system at a public meeting later this month. If the board does not like what it finds, it could move...
Chief object of the board's current scrutiny is Chicago's first citywide school desegregation program, which was unveiled earlier this year by Hannon, 46, a feisty and effective administrator who took office in 1975 after serving as one of the city's assistant superintendents. Hannon's plan, known as Access to Excellence, avoids mandatory busing. Instead, it permits pupils to transfer to any Chicago school with vacancies if the transfer aids desegregation. More significant, ATE seeks integration by creating magnet schools that offer advanced programs to qualified students who live anywhere in the city...
Hannon's critics see the program as too little, too late. They complain that ATE's 18,100-student turnout falls short of the 30,000 Hannon expected this year, and even that figure is a minute fraction of the system's total enrollment. The Chicago Urban League School that two-thirds of the city's 512 elementary schools remain either 90% white or 90% nonwhite. The state board points out that state rules require every school to have a racial composition approximating that of the school system as a whole; yet in Chicago, where...