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While other schools in the county have been getting special favors, they claim, the board has been steadily whittling away at Bradfordsville. It has refused to allow such courses as home economics, has been so parsimonious that it would not even give the school a new typewriter. But even more important is the fact that while Bradfordsville is almost entirely Protestant, the rest of Marion County is heavily Roman Catholic. The County school board has a Catholic majority; the superintendent is Catholic; and 43 of the 92 public-school teachers are nuns. Bradfordsville's fear: once its own high...
...five U.S. campuses-Arizona State College, Oklahoma A. & M., the Universities of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas-100 Guatemalan teachers last week began what may well become a major experiment in Good Neighborliness. With $170,000 from the Foreign Operations Administration, the teachers will spend two months studying U.S. public-school methods, will also get some idea of what the U.S. is all about. Apparently, the program has already had effect. Said Pedro T. Cruz of San Carlos University: "I am charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove the Communist poison...
Clerical circles were alarmed when Premier Mario Scelba, also a Sicilian, picked Martino as Minister of Education seven months ago, because Martino is firmly opposed to clerical influence in public schools. But Martino concentrated on the noncontroversial job of refurbishing Italy's run-down public-school system, became one of the Scelba Cabinet's brightest stars. The first Italian Foreign Minister since the late Carlo Sforza who can carry on a conversation in English (passably), French (pretty well) or Spanish (fluently), Martino is a sturdy supporter of the Western Alliance, a "good European" who believes that the defeat...
...Miss, the state legislature assembled in special session last week to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court ban on segregated public schools. Governor Hugh White's formal call had listed the most important item of business: the long-proposed constitutional amendment to preserve Mississippi's "separate but equal" public-school facilities for 225,000 Negro and 239,000 white children...
...Only at Army-supervised schools at Ft. Meyer and Ft. Belvoir did Negro children crack Virginia's ban on public-school desegregation. Roman Catholic parochial schools in the state accepted about 60 Negro pupils without incident...