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...Chicago's 3,585,000 population, 1,136,000 are Negroes. Although blacks constitute 34% of the city's 23,000 teachers, they are heavily concentrated in its 255 predominantly Negro schools. Of the more than 600 public schools, only 240 have integrated faculties, 214 have no black teachers at all, 12 have only black teachers. In Chicago's white working-class District 1, where black students make up 9.2% of the high school enrollment, black teachers account for only 1.4% of the faculty. In the Austin section, District 4, where Poles and Irish are gradually being...
...city's segregated schools are the result of ghetto housing patterns and fierce white resistance to school bussing. Faculty segregation is perpetuated by a powerful teachers' union and the ever-present threat of a strike if its resistance to mixed faculties is flouted. The union contract allows "regularly certified" teachers, who are generally also more experienced, great latitude in choosing the schools in which they will teach. Most senior teachers, who are mainly white, exercise this contractual right to seek transfers to schools in white areas, which means that less experienced and black teachers are assigned...
...black deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd Jr., whom he is grooming as his successor, and recently named a black district superintendent and a black principal to serve in nearly all-white areas. But most of Redmond's more ambitious plans have run into solid opposition from white parents and teachers alike. His attempts to promote pupil integration by bussing were beaten down by a coalition of militant Polish and Irish voters. Efforts to achieve greater faculty integration by changing the teacher-assignment system ran into strong opposition from the teachers themselves, many of whom are frankly terrified at the prospect...
Last week Moholy's rare gifts as teacher, artist, designer and intellectual stimulus were remembered in a 127-piece retrospective exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.* On view was a wealth of paintings, constructions, photographs, films, typographic and industrial designs touching upon every stage of Moholy's development as an artist, and documenting his conception of art not as object but as pure functionalism...
...doubles as the show's choreographer, I couldn't help but sympathize with her. One of my more Portnoy-esque childhood memories is of a kindergarten pageant where I, part of a chorus line, was supposed to dance the Irish jig. No matter how both my mother and the teacher pleaded, I could never manage the damn thing and botched it terribly. When this cast joins in a grand chorus line, all dancing--after just a few hesitations--pretty competently, I could really appreciate the achievement. The cast does less well with their brogues. None could hang onto them...