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...special education task force of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee decided to recommend a pre-school program and a project for the mentally retarded as the only educational programs to be funded under Title II of the Anti-Poverty Act. The recommendation is almost certain to be approved by the CEOC's full board of directors and then sent them on to Washington...
...pre-school program for some 600 youths from low-income areas...
...program that the University might seek to enter entails remedial-education classes, pre-school clinics, slum clearance, and work training. Over 250 cities, counties, and private groups have already requested funds for such activities...
...permissive zoning" and other measures, New York has since bussed or shifted thousands of Negro children to mostly white schools. The new plan aims to pair about one-fifth of the city's mostly Negro schools with nearby mostly white schools, so that all children of some elementary grades attend one school and all children of other elementary grades attend another. Moreover, it envisions smaller classes, more Negro teachers, more pre-school instruction to give Negro children a better start, and an end to culture-biased IQ tests and to the short class days caused by multiple sessions...
...residents live mainly in ranch houses, shop in glossy supermarkets, generally vote Republican, send their children to ultramodern schools. Late last month, into Park Forest moved a new family-Charles Z. (for Zachary) Wilson, 30, an assistant professor of economics at De Paul University, his wife and their three pre-school children. Some of the neighbors dropped in to welcome them, offer assistance, invite Mrs. Wilson to neighborhood coffee klatsches. Ethel Klutznick, wife of Park Forest Developer Philip Klutznick, baked a cake with the inscription, "Welcome to the Wilsons to Park Forest. The Klutznicks." Others kept a dignified if haughty...