Word: publics
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Paws in the Till. For Georgia alone, Green and Gauerke report, the dollar costs would be astronomical-at least double or triple present budgets. Georgia now spends only $265 a year per public school pupil (U.S. median: $332). But it still provides all the services typical of a public system-free books and transportation, library supervision, an expanding guidance and testing program, adult and vocational education, special teachers for handicapped children. In contrast to Atlanta's private schools, which spend an average $625 per pupil (and in some cases charge extra for books, food, buses), the public schools cost...
Under the private school plan, all this would end abruptly-a critical loss of social services throughout Georgia. The private "system" would be strictly on its own, with only tuition grants for support. It could not possibly take over the public system's job. It could not buy enough school buildings from the state, because of reversion clauses specified by the original land donors; it could not begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws...
...tale." Academic standards would fall. Tuition-grant schools could not hope to offer quality or variety of courses. Example: Little Rock's recently closed private Raney High School (TIME, Aug. 17), which offered less than 25% as many courses to its segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets and so set the curriculum, plunging Southern education to new depths...
...crewcut, always hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been waiting for. Jealous...
...Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...