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While most New Jersey schoolchildren were enjoying their vacations last week, 88,000 other youngsters in summer-school programs had to change their plans. So did teachers and school administrators involved in scheduling for next fall. In an unprecedented move, the New Jersey Supreme Court at 12:01 a.m. on July 1 shut down the state's entire public school system. Reason: the state was not providing "thorough and efficient" education for all New Jersey children, as it was required to do by its constitution...
...waited in the Johannesburg morgue from 6 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, only to be told to come back the next day, when more bodies would be brought in. Headmasters at Soweto schools asked for permission to hold a mass funeral for the dead Soweto schoolchildren on July 3. Even that simple request seemed likely to be turned down by white authorities. Their grounds: it might prove inflammatory...
...scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand top U.S. corporations asking for contributions have produced little cash, and the $40,000 that has been spent to date on Noah II has come, according to Walsh, largely from quarters and dollars sent by schoolchildren. "Perhaps the United Nations should take over this sort of work," he says sadly. "For us, it is the last such roundup...
...with the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also known as the Buckley Amendment. The purpose of the law was twofold. First, to ensure that students would not be handicapped later in life by inaccurate records, the bill allowed students (and the parents of schoolchildren) to expunge erroneous material and to control third-party access to files. Second, to give students some understanding of the basis on which school authorities came to vital decisions about them, the law granted students access to their educational records...
...time, the 1974 federal court order decreeing widespread busing of Boston's schoolchildren seemed to be working its will, even if not exactly winning many ardent converts. During the current school year, interracial violence was mostly limited to the prickly South Boston and Charles town high schools. But an outbreak of racial incidents over the past three weeks has brought a sharp and ugly turn for the worse...