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...bill to provide federal aid for the busing of students from racially im-balanced cities to neighboring suburbs may be introduced in the next session of Congress, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said last night...
...There's serious support for the bill being voiced in Washington and serious consideration being given on the part of high administration planners," Pettigrew said. He predicted that the measure, if passed, could become "a very powerful tool" for fighting de facto segregation...
...bill, Pettigrew said, would remove one of the biggest stumbling blocks to busing students out of large cities--the amount of money a city would remove by busing them. Most state aid to city school systems takes the form of a pupil attendance grant, which would be produced if the city sent students to the suburbs...
...report submitted by Pettigrew to a White House conference last summer concludes that cities like Boston may continue to have segregated and inadequate schools unless they can send some students elsewhere...
...normal processes of urban -continuing in-migra- Negroes to the Central city migration of whites to the -lead to much the same without conscious plan. Pettigrew said. "In some Central city is beginning of white children in its schools...