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...America Is Winning." With justifiable pride, Shriver pointed to Project Head Start, which has brought a touch of civilization to 600,000 preschool slum children, as OEO's most successful effort. He noted that 300,000 volunteers have enlisted in the poverty war, and that the campaign has "reached more than 3,000,000 poor people directly" with jobs, training and other services. "America," he said, "is winning the war on poverty...
...advance by calling wider attention to important problems and supporting experiments and testing ideas that may be applied on a national scale if proven effective." The foundations have been so successful at this that the Federal Government has adopted many of their ideas in such educational programs as the preschool Head Start training for deprived children, school curriculum development, grants to improve university graduate programs in science and engineering, interdisciplinary research in biochemistry and biophysics, much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Believing that they should "never spend a cent of very precious money if someone else...
...seven-day-a-week church, St. Stephen's sponsors a preschool nursery, an emergency food bank and clothing center, a men's club that works for better relations with the police, an after-school tutoring program, a young adults' coffeehouse. Another idea is a club where periodic dialogues take place between "the losers"-neighborhood down-and-outers-and "the thrivers," a group of more affluent parishioners...
Infants & Oldsters. California's epidemic got rolling in the schools - among youngsters who had not developed any immunity because many of them were living more sheltered, preschool lives when the state had its last major Asian-flu attack four years ago. In Los Ange les, up to 300,000 children and 3,500 teachers were out; 90 public and eleven parochial schools gave up and closed...
...comparison to be only a curtain raiser for what could blow up one day in the future." Highlights: > To erase the appalling gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged a one-third reduction of class size in Negro schools, a permanent preschool teaching program to include all children from age three. Cost: at least $50 million, or roughly one-tenth of the city's total school budget. >To reduce Negro unemployment, it asked for establishment of job training and placement centers in all Negro neighborhoods, state legislation to force big employers...