Word: fauntroy
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...system labors under the serious handicaps of a limited budget imposed by a parsimonious Congress and dutiful district commissioners. Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries." Critics also find considerable fault with Hansen's rule. The Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, protests that the four-track system "hardens class lines" and unfairly labels pupils on the basis of tests that "do not measure intelligence but the child's proficiency with middle-class symbols...