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?> Pa?e 4 1 Edit* :* Assembly The North Carolina Legislatu we are glad they did. We v ?adjourned before some $17 milli been allocated for some not One such irrelevant item, f< allocated for more work on tl governor could not do without tl i'm .. Z** i f i," i-^ and marketing. ? We wonder how many of ou Carolina Cloggers of Canton, dollars to make a trip this sur Dance Festival in England. The last minutes of the I members trying to get home ear the taxpayer's money. They a] work on the new veterinary ~ supposedly be constructed at N This, in light of current ltrtgatt The legislature did promote ? session; though we can not think linger in the mind arc thinjj Advancement School while appi financing telephones, janitor's public school; and the $3.6 mi system could better serve as a monv r. i i_:. 1* % ? v-riic 11iiiii oh oi sacmcss arun fact that money was found for i swung the butcher's ax throug importance. They cut hack on blacks and other minorities. I attention to the goings on down future. JLeUea t Dear Sir: The PTA Enrichment Project is closing its dbors and departing from the local educational scene. Its efforts to bring enriching educational experiences in the arts into our public schools have been universally adjudged a success. From all indications the program will be continued bv our local school administration. The numerous practitioners of the various arts who actually performed in the schools have been publicized throughout the community. But none of these performances would have been possible without the cooperation of school officials and the dedicated efforts of the Project's paid staff (currently Ms. Dollyne Brown and Mrs. Brenda Lail), and the THE WINSTON-SALEM CH Thursday by the Winston-Saler 2208 N. Patterson Ave. Mai Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Second Class Postage Paid in Phone 722-8624 Individual copies 20 cents Subscription: $10.40 per year pi included] Editor-in-chief F Society editor Lin Bqsiness editor C Publisher Ndubisi Administrative assisi Opinions expressed by columnist ii represent the policy of this news] I >rial J Adjourns re adjourned last Thursday and vish, however, that they had ion of the taxpayer's money had so important budget items, or example, was the $270,000" ie Governor's mansion. If the 1C renovation^then rprtaipjy wp r readers are familiar with theThey will get 10,000 of^your nmer to the International Folk egislative session saw many ly rather than being careful with ppropriated some $500,000 for school oi^-medicine that?wtll? m 4 ? ? ortn Carolina Slate in Kaleigh. om ~ >omc good bills during its 1975 ; of any offhand. What seems to ;s like not funding the N.C. -opriating some $2.b million for supplies and furnaces in the 11 ion spent to expand the court pay raise to teachers or to hire it the General Assembly is the special projects,,but legislators bout the year on items of vital things of vital importance to Perhaps voters will pay more at the state house now or in the 1o Sddoi volunteers who made up the advisory committee. This Jattcr group worked long and diligently to make a : a - prujt'i'i a success, i ney met nights and on weekends and addressed themselves to a variety of problems in order to insure the success of the Project. These community minded people include Mr. H.B. Goodson, Mr. A.B. Beattie, Mr. Douglas Carter, Mr. Allan Cowen, Mrs. Martha James, Mrs. Mandcrline Scales, Mr. F. King Thomas, Mrs. Marion Williams and Mrs. Annie P. Wilson. On behalf of the P.T.A. and for all of the ft ?l lirl . 1 / ! -vA |/i?i v III.i it 11 vi ilium i II UI Forsyth County, 1 say to these good people "Well done, and Thank you." William F. Sheppard, Pres. County Council of PTAs RONICLE is published every n Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. ling address: P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102 ivable in advance |N.C. sales tax Irnesi H. Pitt da Murrell harles T. Byrd Jr. Egemonye tant....Gloria J. Jones n this newspaper do not necessarily paper. % Winston-Salem Chronicle ~/ J ^IL. t ?< / ? V O ^FO BE EQIL You might think that the end of the school year would _ ? rr .< ? cooi ott me persistent busing controversy, but it hasn't. The new attention to the school bus comes with the . highly publicized statement by sociologist James Coleman that court-ordered busing leads to white flight to the suburbs and consequent greater segregation of urban school systems. Coleman's earlier research, with its finding that integrating lower class black students in schools with middle class whites led to better educational achievement for blacks and no change for the whites, helped support the argument that integration improves schooling. Coleman's pronouncement that busing has failed in that it just leads to resegregation has been seized with glee by the anti-busing crowd and with disappointment by integration's. Neither reaction is called for: the statement must be seen in context. n n P r\f tVtP nrnKlnrrtc v/ I iv V/1 HIV piVUIVIlia UI social sciences lies in the fact that studies of social issues are often inconclusive. Coleman's research has been challenged, and seriously damaged, by two equally prominent sociologists. Dr. Robert Green of Michigan State University and Dr. 1 V, rM,, rt f ?? ?**?. I LI J uvMiiua rciugicw ui narvaru. They blast the new Coleman study as unsubstantiated and point out that the white middle class started its exodus from the cities back in 1950. before the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregated schools. In some cities, court-ordered * ' ? UL A A P- <1 aJ <C C JO ' By Vernon E. J busing followed years of massive white movement to the suburbs. Coleman is clearly wrong in stating flatly that whites are moving out of the cities to i i i : cauapc scuuui ousing. n may influence some but most of the new suburbanites are searching for the American Dream of a plot of land, a house and a picket fence. That's a Dream closed to most black people because of non-enforcement of fair housing laws, local zoning regulations, and economic hardship. One way to integrate the schools is to integrate housing patterns, but that doesn't mean busing has no place. This country- has become obsessed with busing, instead of being concerned about providing quality educational opportunities for all. . The school bus is not the answer for every educational problem, but it is one useful device to help integrate the schools and to make the next generation of Americans less class and race rnn^finiK anM mnrp nnpn tn ? V ?a > W % Mil W ft ? V/ ft V vy ^ V II ft \/ diversity and pluralism, which, iii itself an important educational goal. The fatal flaw in studies purporting to show that busing -- or compensatory education or other innovations -- doesn't^ work ic that cnr^h new programs are almost never really tried. Very few school systems have honestly made a priority effort to make integration work. The typical response has been to delay and to sabotage integration efforts * / until a court finally steps in immi i mi 1 July S, 1975 |g. i. P "- -* j, ^ ^ N ^' ' Oi ^ l<n* r c. * /vi e * * / ordon,Jr. and orders busing as a last resort. Then the white community and school officials scream bloody murder about "forced" busing, tensions * - - * - increase, and nobody shows any concern about the kind of education the kids get. Boston is the classic example of this kind of situation, but other cities are about as callous in their treatment of white and black children. As New York City's Human Rights Commission pointed out: "The fact is that little has been done anywhere to develop practical strategies to cope with the daily challenges of integration to I. _ !x 1 maKe u worK. So there is a vicious cycle here: integration plans are never really implemented, school officials sabotage it and some racist parents and ambitious politicians whip up local feelings, busing is used where other measures might o? work as well, and then some sociologist steps in, does a study and announces that integration isn't working. i J i ? iviayoe 11 s oecause it was never meant to work and because no one is trying to make it work. What too many people seem to be forgetting is that discussion about integrated schools is not an academic exercise about educational theory. Integrated schools are a constitutional right of white and black children alike. And q the real issue behind the anti-busing smokescreen is whether or not the Constitution, the courts and the law will be upheld, or whether anarchy prevails.
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