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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double or Nothing. In the suburbs of Cook County, the elementary school population has doubled to 132,000 in the last decade, and 6,000 pupils now attend school only half a day. The North Palos Park school must use its gym as a classroom, has had to cut out kindergarten to make room for first-graders, and in spite of the fact that many classes have topped the 40-pupil mark, the school is on double shift. Palatine's pupils have overflowed into St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church, those in Park Forest are using private houses...
Back to the Builder. One reason for all the poverty is that without industrial plants and offices, most suburbs cannot begin to collect enough property taxes. Officials estimate that behind each pupil there should be taxable property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property...
...Taking up one of the five original cases that led the U.S. Supreme Court to make its decision against school segregation, a federal circuit court in Columbia, S.C. forbade the trustees of the Summerton school district to bar any pupil from any school because of his race, ordered them to proceed "with all deliberate speed" to end discrimination in the schools...
...High School on West 93rd Street, no one bothered to ask him why he had come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...
While at the College, the artist was a pupil of Professor Arthur Pope. After graduating, he continued his studies of painting and graphic art in Europe and Mexico. He is now associate professor of Art at Vassar College...