Word: school-board
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...Failure. Last week the grace period expired. The Gloucester school board had tried to float a $300,000 bond issue to build a brand-new Negro high school, but Gloucester County had voted it down. In the court's view, the defendants had failed; Superintendent Kenney and Gloucester County's school-board members were fined $250 apiece...
Finally 50 parents marched into a school-board meeting to ask about punishment and other grievances. The board read the minutes and adjourned, told parents to "submit all complaints in writing ten days before a meeting...
...next school-board meeting, students from Bancroft school stormed into the hall and demanded their machine back. They also had a few other grievances: they couldn't go home for lunch, they couldn't play on the school grounds after hours. When they got to shouting and stamping their feet, they were sent home...
...parents who gave in. "We have talked," said one, "until we are blue in the face." Finally almost all the parents signed a petition asking the school-board members to quit...
Mustering up the most urgent words it could find, the powerful National Education Association (341,000 members) had once called it "probably the most serious school situation now current in the nation." The N.E.A.'s words were not enough. A school-board battle which had aroused the citizens of North College Hill (a suburb of Cincinnati) went right on. Last week the N.E.A. moved into the arena again. For the first time in its history, the N.E.A. blacklisted a school system, and urged "all worthy members of the teaching profession" to stay away from North College Hill, Ohio...