Word: nebraska
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Congratulations to Theodore C. Sorensen and TIME'S reporting of his recent remarks on Nebraska's educational state [July...
...that people vote with their feet. Of the ten young men who grew up in my neighborhood near the University Agricultural Campus in Lincoln, all have completed university training and have entered some professional field. Only one of these young men who finished university around 1950 is still in Nebraska. As a teacher, it is certain that I will not even consider Nebraska as a place to return to for continuing my work...
...should Nebraska, with its traditions of greatness, its pride in education, its diversity of resources, have to rank among the educationally depressed areas of the country-where too many bright students do not go on to college, where too many teachers have no degree, and where too many school districts dissipate local funds and receive practically no state funds whatsoever...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
...statistics did not seem to overly damage Sorensen's brief. The last stronghold of the one-room schoolhouse, Nebraska has more school systems than any other state-3,722, including 495 with no pupils at all and 1,823 with schools of 15 pupils or less. Nebraska believes in local control and local financing of schools; 91.4% of school revenue comes from local governments, and state aid is sparse. No state depends more on local financing; only Massachusetts spends less per capita on state aid to public education. While Nebraska is 25th in per capita personal income...