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But in the same period, the city's only high school. Cambridge Rindge and Latin, has gone from a dilapidated, crumbling building--with a curriculum in far worse shape than its physical structure--to "a school we can hold our heads high over," as School Committee member Frances Cooper describes...
The Bakersfield decision quickly brought to the surface once again the emotional issue of school desegregation. After the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1975 charged that the Bakersfield school district operated racially imbalanced schools, the district resisted busing. "The question now is whether the Justice Department is really...
The controversy over the commission first erupted last May, when President Reagan replaced three members with appointees who shared his opposition to racial quotas and busing. "We wanted our own people," said White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Two of the sacked members, Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, sued...
Sired by a Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey, McKinney was raised on a horse farm but bred to be a ski racer by her stage mother Frances, who rented a winter house near Squaw Valley, Calif. "I remember wearing baby skis," says Tamara, the youngest and the second most promising...
The evening was conceived as a tribute by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which credits the Group Theater with spiritual parentage, not only of its own drama program but of much of the naturalism, progressivism, bohemianism and political activism in several decades of American drama...