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...however, some 12,000 districts still have not filed desegregation statements that have satisfied Keppel's office...
Federal spending on education will obviously keep growing, and the influence of Keppel's office, which is already being expanded, will be considerable. But to a surprising degree, the old fear of federal control has faded. Schoolmen have been working with federal money for years, and though they may object to some of the paper work, they have discovered that so far Washington has never tried to tell them what or how to teach. "I believe in local control," says New York's Commissioner Allen. "But local control also means that you allow a community...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 had already decreed that no federal funds can aid any project operated on a discriminatory basis. But the law will put heavy pressure on the nation's public-school districts to file assurances that they do comply with the Civil Rights Act. Commissioner Keppel has firmly insisted that Southern school districts must either present specific plans to drop their dual school systems within four years or openly agree to permit Negro students to enter any school of their choice, except where a school is seriously overcrowded. So far, he has accepted the plans...
Governor Carl Sanders of Georgia recently telephoned Keppel to protest: "My boys went extra lengths to change their systems. If any Negro wants to go to a white school, they are pledged to let him in. My God, what more do you want? Do you want us to advertise to drum up business...
...Keppel's one-word answer...