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...recent poll in Atlanta, for instance, showed that the city's blacks oppose busing by a 2-to-1 margin. Says Mrs. Leroy Woodward, an Atlanta school-board member: "I've always thought it was insulting to blacks to say that they would do better if they could just sit next to a white child at school. What we need are better schools...
...from running simultaneously for Vice President and for Senator. When L.B.J. was President, he wanted to appoint Jaworski Attorney General. But sensitive to charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards, in fact, Jaworski has often been a maverick. He defended a liberal school-board member who was under furious attack from conservatives, and he was chosen to prosecute former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett for criminal contempt for trying to block desegregation...
Many parents feared for their children's safety because the time change meant that most had to go to school in the dark. In Philadelphia, an angry mother rose at a neighborhood school-board meeting to shout: "It's dangerous for our kids to go to school through pitch-black streets full of abandoned buildings. Mothers, stop dragging your feet. Open schools later in the day or our children are going to get hurt...
...drafters of the First Amendment 200 years ago. A press which is not free to gather news without threat of ultimate incarceration cannot play its role meaningfully. The people as a whole must suffer. For to make thoughtful and efficacious decisions-whether it be at the local school-board meeting or in the voting booth-the people need information. If the sources of that information are limited to official spokesmen, the people have no means of evaluating the worth of their promises and assurances...
Once it seemed like an imaginative new way to overcome the faults of inferior schools. Instead of relying on standard teachers and standard routines, a community could sign a contract with outside specialists who would be paid only if they improved the students' learning. More than 30 cities have experimented with "performance contracting," and one poll showed that two-thirds of the nation's school-board members were interested in trying it (TIME...