Word: keppell
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...Franics Keppel '38, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1948 to 1962, has been appointed an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education Welfare, effective Oct. 4. Keppel's position in HEW is designed to strengthen his authority and bring closer coordination between the Office of Education and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He will remain Commissioner of Education...
...Francis Keppel '38, U.S. Commissioner of Education, had announced the temporary suspension of funds -- granted to Chicago under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act -- last Friday after an investigation by the Office of Education substantiated charges by Chicago civil rights groups that the city's schools were willfully segregated and therefore should be barred from receiving federal aid under the 1964 Civil Rights...
...schools have enrollments that are less than 20% white. A new state law (TIME, Aug 27) requires schools to correct imbalance or forfeit state funds; Boston has until October to complete a pupil census, and then must submit plans to redress the balance. And U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel has begun an investigation to see if Boston's schools can continue to qualify for $2,000,000 in federal...
...Just Do Nothin'." That still left plenty of areas of resistance. More than 100 districts made no effort to qualify for federal aid, and 120 others submitted plans that will have to be upgraded to satisfy Keppel...
There will be other places that will try, as Amite School Board Chairman Colville Jackson puts it, to "just do nothin'." But integration is moving at a stepped-up pace. Late this month, Commissioner Keppel expects to have a head count on just how many Negroes are in previously all-white Southern classrooms this year. He optimistically predicts that the number will be ten times that of last year-in all, perhaps as much as a fourth of the South's Negro schoolchildren...