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Three alternatives were discussed: 1) a constitutional amendment, 2) Justice Department intervention in court cases involving busing, and 3) legislation limiting busing while providing other means to upgrade substandard schools. Nixon promised a decision shortly after his return from China. Barely a day passed before it appeared that the Administration had foreclosed one of the three possibilities. Vice President Spiro Agnew voiced his personal opposition to a constitutional amendment. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson followed up the Agnew argument, noting that any amendment might well nullify landmark civil rights decisions. The word spread on Capitol Hill that John Mitchell, too, opposed...
There are other methods of removing the inequities in education: better funding for substandard schools, special programs, a student "voucher" system and traveling teaching teams. Yale's Bickel believes that imaginative programs can be devised to equalize educational standards, noting that the courts are insisting on busing partly because no other alternatives for bettering schools are available to them. Says Bickel: "The remedy for unequal education is a fluid concept. What is needed is for school districts to make the courts deal with a changed problem. I hope men of good-will will address the problem creatively...
...drafts primarily the poor; a medical establishment that gives the wealthy the best health care in the world, while giving the poor treatment inferior to that in many industrial countries; a housing policy which permits the rich to escape to the suburbs, while forcing the poor to live in substandard housing. Is Mr. Herrnstein going to tell the children of America's poor as they look forward to the bleak prospect of living their lives in America that society is removing "arbitrary barriers?" In fact, arbitrary barriers dominate our society. It is mistaken to think that if we accept this...
Ignorance, lack of specialized training, discrimination and substandard wages are the reasons usually cited for the persistence of poverty in the affluent U.S. But Sociologist Herbert J. Gans of M.I.T. believes that there is a more subtle underlying cause for the substandard living conditions of millions of Americans. Poverty, Gans says, continues to exist because it performs useful functions for many members of society...
...applications would receive special consideration. In order words, the admissions committees would try to look at a Chicano's academic record while keeping in mind that in all likelihood the Chicano had not spoken English when he entered school, that the school in which he was enrolled was probably substandard, that he was probably economically impoverished, and that his parents had probably never gotten beyond grade school...