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...committee presently sends volunteers to eight Massachusetts correvtional institutions to instruct inmates in math, reading and other subjects relevant to rehabilitation. The black studies courses have been among the most popular with inmates, Rodriguez said...
Died. Tito Rodriguez, 50, the "Frank Sinatra of Latin Music" who made his singing debut on Puerto Rican radio at the age of 13, sang during the '40s with the band of Xavier Cugat, then sold more than 12 million recordings of softly rendered, romantic love songs; of complications following a bleeding ulcer; in Manhattan...
...Supreme Court finally decided to hear the Texas suit; it is a classic case of discrimination by pocketbook. The suit was brought by a group of parents led by Demetrio P. Rodriguez, a civil service worker at Kelly Air Force Base whose two children attend Edgewood elementary school in a predominantly Mexican-American section of San Antonio. Rodriguez visited the school in 1968 and found that water fountains did not work, bathrooms had no toilet paper, science rooms had no sinks and the library was short of books. Moreover, the school's dropout rate...
...city's white north side, however, schools were better financed. They had lower dropout rates, better equipment, higher teacher pay, athletic stadiums and air conditioning. In short, white students were getting better educational opportunities because their neighborhood could afford to foot the bill, charged Rodriguez...
Many white parents understandably fear that if the Supreme Court upholds the Rodriguez decision, it will result in higher taxes for them as well as less money for their own schools. That could lower the quality of their children's education. Yet while they are obviously justified in demanding the best education that money can buy for their own children, many affluent parents admit that a way should be found to provide an equally good education for poor children. Some sociologists, like James Coleman of Johns Hopkins University, claim that more money will not ensure better-quality education...