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...taxes and bond issues. This means that the board must appeal for cash to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state's Republican legislature for about one-third of its school funds, but New York does manage to scrape up more per pupil (an average of $625 last year) than any other major city...
This bizarre detective's job is to follow the wife of a stuffy intellectual accountant who suspects his spouse of being unfaithful. She is a jazzy emotional urchin less than half her husband's age. Their teacher-pupil marriage is threatened with a permanent recess. Peripatetic Philosopher Cristoforou teaches them the saving lesson that love in marriage is content rather than form, the sharing of experience rather than the bandying of words...
...most U.S. cities, whites and Negroes live apart, in separate neighborhoods. That has been the pattern for generations. Since each child attends the school in his own neighborhood, most Chicago public schools are either predominantly white or predominantly Negro. About 90% of the city's Negro elementary school pupils attend schools that are virtually all-Negro. And Negroes charge that for Negro children, education is not only separate but unequal. A survey by Chicago's Urban League found that in Negro schools the budget for teacher salaries is only 85% as high as in white schools, and that...
...School Superintendent William B. Levenson). "Once we become concentrated, we become ignored," says a Boston Negro leader. Most of Los Angeles' 53 Negro schools are on double sessions. Chicago's Urban League calculates that in operating expenses Negro schools get only two-thirds as much per pupil as white schools...
...industry has sold educators the idea that air conditioning makes classrooms usable the year round, and can cut construction bills by reducing window space. A Florida school board found that it cost $767 per pupil to put up a non-cooled school v. $751 for a cooled school. Manhattan is building an air-conditioned and windowless school in Harlem in hopes of cutting losses from windows smashed by vandals...