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When a yellow school bus rumbles by on busy Interstate 95 in Wilmington, Del., it ticks Wayne Smith off. Since he was first elected to Delaware's state legislature in 1990, Smith, 41, has crusaded to end this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by court order in 1978. Educators say the program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break...
...white" neighborhood less than a mile from where he lives now, a federal court had ordered Wilmington's New Castle County to comply with one of the most invasive busing orders in the country--a plan that reorganized its 11 school districts into four systems, each of them part urban and part suburban. Under the order, all students had to attend school for three years in the city and nine years in the suburbs...
...easy options" among the Bush Administration's difficult choices in Iraq [April 19]. But here's one scenario: Replace the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority with an experienced mayor of a large city. Add to the military a police force that knows how to deal with an unruly urban civilian population. The one thing the U.S. should not do is "stay the course," as advocated by President Bush. PETER R. LANTOS Erdenheim...
...make two Core classes introductory courses for the department. Literature and Arts B-82, “Sayin’ Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility and Social Dialogue,” could become the introductory humanities course, while Social Analysis 68, “Race, Class and Poverty in Urban America,” could become the introductory social studies class...
...passersby on Bow Street, the murals have become as much a part of the urban landscape as the Tommy’s stores. But they are unfinished—the train emanating from the giant washing machine in one of the panels is empty. The white tiles in another panel are left blank...