Word: gartland
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Boston reporters notwithstanding, Arthur Gartland '36 seemed to know exactly what he was risking when he lent his name to the Citizens for Boston Schools. The Hicks juggernaut was proclaiming the current excellence of Boston schools. In his campaign speeches, Gartland pointed to the $29 million in building funds which has been available to the Committee since a 1963 bond issue; only $2.2 million of this has been allocated to date, although in some schools, more than 40 pupils are crowded into classrooms. Gartland also critized the obsolete vocational training program, the large number of temporary, unlicensed teachers now employed...
...Gartland is no flaming radical. He is an insurance broker, Irish and Roman Catholic, born and raised in Boston. He admits privately that de facto segregation never bothered him until the school boycott of 1963, when he was already serving on the school committee. His concern first manifested itself when, as a minority of one, he proposed that the school committee discuss the boycott leaders' grievances. After the second school boycott in February, 1964, Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary to bring about a meeting. Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary...
Armed with the Kiernan Report and faced with the new state law, Gartland entered the lists this summer as a firm opponent of racial imbalance. He is still reluctant to propose busing as a comprehensive solution. This summer be moved to institute a study of redistricting; the Committee, to Gartland's surprise, approved it for sometime in the future. He also envisions larger elementary schools with up to 800 pupils, built near ghetto boundaries...
...Gartland's long-range proposals are practically identical to the compliance plan which Mrs. Hicks says she will submit by November 22. The only difference is that Gartland is serious. Mrs. Hicks describes her plan as a long-range schedule for school construction on the peripheries of Negro residential areas. However, as she assured reporters on election night, Boston has only to submit a plan, not to complete it at any given date. She concluded with a grin and a counter-question: "The peripheries move. What do you do then...
...construction is any indication, Mrs. Hicks could probably delay any significant new building for the next 20 years. The Committee has made a pretense for the last two years of hunting for a site for the new Boston English High School, the "keystone" of any new building program. Gartland has repeatedly suggested a BRA-owned site in Roxbury; it is accessible, available, and the new school would be an asset to the new housing development it would join. But no one listens to Gartland...