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...Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental drama. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a no-nonsense English schoolteacher who arrives in a poor Welsh town to educate young coal miners. Right away she finds a gifted pupil, Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), whom she puts into strenuous training to compete for an Oxford scholarship. Despite a few unspectacular mishaps, a happy ending follows with all too deliberate speed...
...declared the scheme unconstitutional because it exempted teachers over age 55, thereby discriminating against younger teachers. Meanwhile, Hannon has ignored a recommendation from the school board's City-Wide Advisory Committee, made up of church, labor and business groups, that the schools prepare a contingency plan for mandatory pupil integration...
...school board pretty much won the battle with the union. The teachers' salaries will be frozen for a year and a half, and they will get only 5% raises in each of the following two years. The teachers did win guaranteed teacher-pupil ratios for special programs, but at a terrible price. Union President Martin Cullinan is serving 20 days in jail for disregarding a court order to go back to work. The union must pay $170,000 in fines, which will eventually go to the school district, and each teacher has been fined two days...
...have a lot of promise. A visiting director, elegant and appropriate sets, and pretty stage pictures, however, do not save this play. Consistently wooden acting cancels out all flourishes of technical competence. Lillian Hellman's play concerns two schoolteachers whose lives are ruined when a spoiled and rebellious pupil accuses them of lesbianism. The highly emotional confrontations throughout the play demand good acting, and it just isn't there. But if you want to see for yourself, it's playing at the Loeb Mainstage, tonight, tomorrow and Sat. Tickets at the Loeb box office...
...youngsters of the Hispanic community make up one-third of Bade County's pupil population, and they score well above other Bade students on English and math achievement tests. They have ready access to bilingual education, and in 1976, 72% went on to college...