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...after serving as one of the city's assistant superintendents. Hannon's plan, known as Access to Excellence, avoids mandatory busing. Instead, it permits pupils to transfer to any Chicago school with vacancies if the transfer aids desegregation. More significant, ATE seeks integration by creating magnet schools that offer advanced programs to qualified students who live anywhere in the city, and by setting up more than 100 part-time career counseling, cultural and remedial programs. These include natural science courses at the lakefront Shedd Aquarium and courses in hotel management offered at two downtown Holiday Inns...
...magnet school program is not Hannon's only concern. In 1977 the school system lost an eight-year legal battle against a federal order for reassignment of teachers and principals to increase integration. Hannon thereupon transferred 3,500 teachers and principals in an integration program that Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano called "a model for the nation." But last month a federal judge declared the scheme unconstitutional because it exempted teachers over age 55, thereby discriminating against younger teachers. Meanwhile, Hannon has ignored a recommendation from the school board's City-Wide Advisory Committee, made...
...that was founded in 1781 as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula. At a conservative estimate, some 1.6 million of the metropolitan area's 7 million residents are Hispanics, overwhelmingly of Mexican descent. That makes Los Angeles a magnet for the estimated 7 million legally resident Hispanics scattered across the southwestern...
Armor has often testified in court hearings about mandatory busing plans. His personal hope for further progress boils down to a mixture of mandated school improvements-for instance, a court-ordered increase in the number of "magnet" schools to draw qualified whites and blacks from all corners of a city-and vigorously promoted voluntary school integration. The only hopeful example he gives, however, is San Diego. Using a voluntary system, the city has kept the level of white flight down (below 6% per year). But the increase in the actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together...
BOSTON. For years racial antagonism and resistance to busing forced educational progress into a back seat. There has been notable white flight from Boston. But 25 new magnet schools have taken some of the sting out of forced integration by drawing a multiracial student body, which attends voluntarily and comes from all over the city to get high-grade training...