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...President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the not-so-incidental pleasures of his visit to Washington last week was the chance to applaud a legislative harbinger of his upcoming Administration. While Reagan was in town, the Senate passed a measure that would prohibit the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. "I am heart and soul in favor of the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill...
...proposed anti-busing amendment, tacked onto a $9 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, would prohibit the Justice Department from spending money to send children to any school but the one nearest their home...
...recent Congressional decision to prohibit the Justice Department from granting money for court-ordered busing will have little effect in Cambridge and Boston, school officials said yesterday, but they nevertheless said they are disappointed by the amendment's passage...
...first target of their attack was a long-standing conservative shibboleth--school busing to achieve racial balance or alleviate segregation. The Senate attached "riders" to several appropriations bills that would prohibit the Justice Department from suing local school districts in an effort to balance school racially through busing programs...
Instead, the faculty voted to send the issue back to an executive committee to discuss whether to have a reading period and whether to prohibit major quizzes and exams in the last week before finals...