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...comprehensive district secondary schools" that would offer the kind of specialized courses that are now available at magnet schools, as well as a traditional curriculum, vocational training and honors programs. Each district would have at least one of these schools. The magnet schools would be absorbed by the new comprehensive schools...
...into effect for the 1983-84 school year and sets a goal of 25% black enrollment (and a minimum of 15%) in the county school districts, which now have some 200,000 students. The city of St. Louis, for its part, hopes to attract white, suburban students to special magnet schools that offer advanced courses or such special programs as performing arts and naval ROTC. Currently about 7,100 students, including 450 from the county, attend the 19 St. Louis magnet schools. Few racial problems have accompanied the transfers...
...cost of the new voluntary plan and the creation of more magnet schools will be financed partly by the state of Missouri. It is already paying $20 million a year to the city and county of St. Louis to help defray such expenses as busing in the current limited desegregation program. Hungate may order a new school tax to help finance last week's agreement, a measure that is sure to prove unpopular with both politicians and residents. But in the final analysis, court-ordered busing would have been the most unpopular alternative...
...like Stewart is a magnet," said Constance A. Hammond, another first-year Divinity School student who has been working with Guernsey. "He's been a catalyst for a lot of activity. People were so glad they could give of their time...
...implement, but a more insidious use of standardized scores for young children does damage which is far less visible. The existence of widespread and continuous testing makes easier a process many school nationwide have been practicing for some time-"weeding out" the very talented and the very slow for "magnet" or "alternative" tracked program, which then remain totally separate from the larger group...