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...centers, including one at Charlotte's Central High School, to meet the demands of returning veterans. Miss Bonnie became director of the Central center in 1947, nourished the place through a series of crises, still recalls the struggle to keep her faculty on the same pay scale as public-school teachers. "It was the only time I've ever cringed to see schoolteachers get a pay increase," she says. Working an average 14-hour day, seven days a week, Miss Bonnie still managed to get to the bedside of a sick child of a staff member...
...order to reduce the size of classes, to providing clothing and shoes for the needy, to assigning social workers to work with parents of the poor. Georgia expects to finance kindergartens, which have proved invaluable in easing the transition from a bad home environment; only half of U.S. public-school districts now maintain them. Cleveland plans to extend its school day past 3:30 p.m. to permit an array of remedial reading and arithmetic classes, individual tutoring, personal and vocational counseling. Atlanta hopes to set up workshops for the teachers who will teach the poor, since most are from middle...
...provides an even $100 million to buy textbooks and expand school libraries, including the purchase of books, periodicals, phonograph records. The money will go directly to state agencies, will be handled entirely by the states, but distribution of the materials must be made equitably to private-as well as public-school students "to the extent consistent with" state law. To avoid legal complications, ownership of the materials will be retained by the public agency. The program is not tied to the poor; funds will be split among the states according to their percentage of all the nation's elementary...
...bill avoided any racial flare-up because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had already decreed that no federal funds can aid any project operated on a discriminatory basis. But the law will put heavy pressure on the nation's public-school districts to file assurances that they do comply with the Civil Rights Act. Commissioner Keppel has firmly insisted that Southern school districts must either present specific plans to drop their dual school systems within four years or openly agree to permit Negro students to enter any school of their choice, except where a school is seriously overcrowded...
...today, which has eased religious tensions. (President Kennedy had hobbled himself with a self-imposed difficulty: his determination to do nothing that might be interpreted as pro-Catholic.) There still are practical religious problems to be worked out in shared-time programs. Asks Sam Hamerman, a Los Angeles public-school official: "Will the nuns appear in their habits in public-school classes? Will the parochial children be kept together or split up in public-school classes?" Undoubtedly there are many court tests ahead, but Washington is confident that little will come of them...