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...major U.S. city-and the slums have expanded as blacks arrived and whites departed for the suburbs. The flight of middle-class residents and their tax revenues has placed increased demands on municipal services for the poor and made them that much less adequate. Hardest hit is the public-school system, which some real estate agents now frankly warn home buyers to avoid...
...appears that TIME has chosen to elect Albert Shanker as the villain in the New York City public-school dispute [Oct. 25]. The fact that Albert Shanker lives in Putnam County and earns an annual salary of $16,750 (which TIME stated) bears as much relevance to the cure of the city's ills as the fact that Rhody McCoy lives in Roosevelt, L.I. and earns an annual salary of $30,000 (which TIME neglected to state). If you must elect a villain in this crisis, I suggest that we widen the range of candidates to include Bernard Donovan...
...France, not to mention such perquisites as a company car. The Briton in the same job can expect to pull down only half as much. The Briton does get more perks, including an entertainment allowance, housing assistance, a car, sometimes even a company endowment to help foot public-school bills...
...speech include? How obscene must a book or film be to lose the First Amendment protection? When can a soldier speak without fear of being punished for his words? Last week the question being argued before the court was whether or not a teacher can be fired by a public-school board for criticizing the superintendent of schools. In light of the continual immediacy of the problem, court watchers were looking carefully at Justice Hugo Black's Carpentier Lectures (TIME, March 29)-particularly at the final talk, in which Black dwelled on picketing and other forms of so-called...
Four years ago, no public school in Cleveland offered hot lunches to its students. Now all secondary schools do, and last month the city became the first in the nation to offer free breakfasts, to 14,000 children in elementary schools. The milk-and-cereal program-which has dramatically cut down on absenteeism-is the brainchild of Superintendent Paul Warren Briggs, 55, who is steadily changing an ailing public-school system into a healthy...