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...lower court, which had refused the Jim Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...
...public-school system would be divided into: elementary school, for children from five to twelve; high school, for adolescents from 13 to 16; junior college, for young adults of 17 and over. All students would enter school at the same age (five), but move together from one division to the next when they reached the appropriate age. regardless of how far they had advanced scholastically...
...SOUTHERN SCHOOL BONDS are going begging. Reason: threats to get around segregation by abolishing the public-school systems have tarnished the traditionally gilt-edged credit of school bonds. After New York syndicates demanded Florida pay 3.11% interest on $10,585,000 of school bonds (v. the previous high of 2.69%), Florida withdrew the offer...
...York City took one more step in its gradual abandonment of the policy of automatic promotions for public-school pupils no matter what their marks. Last week it announced that it would hold back 11,709 out of 448,000 elementary-school students-a jump of nearly 6,000 over...
...most any conference of U.S. educators these days, the topic was bound to come up at the regional meeting of the National Education Association in Denver: What can a teacher do to help that most neglected of schoolchildren, the bright and eager pupil? Last week a genial and tireless public-school man named Eldred Harrington gave an answer that left his Denver audience astounded. "We didn't know what to make of the fellow," said one teacher, "but he certainly was interesting...