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...concerned about the escalating costs of education, but remain at odds over the means by which to cope with budgetary problems. Not surprisingly, since every candidate, regardless of group "affiliation," professes sincere desire to improve the quality of education in Cambridge, a city which, despite having the highest per-pupil expenditures in the state, has consistently failed to provide its students with an education of correspondingly high quality...
...Besides, moral backing for busing long ago disappeared from the White House. Echoing his predecessor's doubts, President Ford recently observed: "I don't think that forced busing to achieve racial balance is the proper way to get quality education." Instead he called for "better school facilities, lower teacher-pupil ratios, the improvement of neighborhoods as such." Similarly, local politicians like Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane and Boston Mayor Kevin White have misgivings about busing. Says White: "To pursue blindly a means that may not be correct is to use one wrong to correct another." Even black mayors like Coleman...
...busing to desegregate schools in Charlotte and suburban Mecklenberg County in 1970. Racial fights erupted, sometimes among hundreds of students. One in every six white students transferred to private schools. But whites have gradually if rather grudgingly accepted the busing of 23,000 of the district's 75,000 pupils, in part because there are some limits to the number of years that each pupil will be bused. Lately the racial composition of the merged schools has stabilized at about 35% black. As gauged by national achievement tests in reading and math, student achievement has been unaffected...
Generally, the Independents have been more accommodating to the teachers than the reformers. The latter invariably point out that Cambridge's per-pupil cost is the highest in the state...
...U.S.C.; Goldenberg studied piano with his father. Schifrin's father was concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. Raposo studied in Paris with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. "You have five more years of counterpoint," warned Mme. Boulanger when he announced his impending departure. She worried about her pupil's attraction to popular music: "What will happen to you is the same thing that happened to Gershwin." Replied Raposo: "I certainly hope...