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WASHINGTON — A leading
sociologist joined Kentucky political
leaders Tuesday in calling for an end
to compulsory busing as a means of
achieving school desegration.
Sociologist James S. Coleman of
the University of Chicago, an early
backer of cross-busing of school
children, told the Senate Judiciary
Committee he now believes that
busing has hampered more than
helped the cause of school integra
tion.
Claiming busing raises “a spectre
of a country of black cities and white
suburbs,” Coleman said he supports
a moratorium on all busing and the
creation of a presidential commis
sion to study the impact of busing
across the nation.
But Coleman disagreed with
Kentucky Gov. Julian M. Carroll
and Kentucky senators and con
gressmen who urged that the Con
stitution be amended to bar court-
ordered busing plans like those now
in effect in Louisville and Boston.
The Judiciary Committee is hold
ing hearings on four proposed con
stitutional amendments that would
prohibit busing of students beyond
the nearest school.
Committee chairman James O.
Eastland, D-Miss., said the two
days of hearings are centering of the
Louisville-Jefferson County busing
plan as a “test case” study of a com
munity “marred by strife” because
of court-ordered busing.
A report by Coleman in 1966 for
the U. S. Office of Education sup
ported busing to achieve desegra
tion. The report found that children
from disadvantaged backgrounds
performed somewhat better when
they attended school with children
from more affluent homes.
Coleman testified that when he
conducted that study, he never en
visioned massive court-ordered
busing of students or the impact it
would have on U. S. cities.
The results of such orders have
been counterproductive, he said,
increasing racial tensions and con
tributing to the flight of whites from
cities to surrounding suburbs.
But he said a constitutional
amendment is the wrong way to go
about ending busing. “I don’t see
the Constitution as an instrument
that shoidd be used for a matter of
this sort,” he testified.
Instead, he said he hopes that the
federal courts get the message that
busing hasn’t worked and cease issu
ing busing orders.
Meantime, Coleman said a presi
dential commission to study busing
— with a moratorium on busing
plans while the commission does its
work — would be “a very useful
thing for this country.”
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student fees after Oct. 1 except for
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funds we ll be getting from the
Texas Education Agency, it’s hard
to approve a $75,000 deficit, said
trustee Raul Fernandez.
Northside has 1,800 pupils ex
pected to take the course at $65 per
enrollment.
The vote to continue charging the
fee was unanimous.
Trustee Wayne Nance said the
district would continue to collect
the fees until it was stopped, proba
bly by a lawsuit.
Richard Harris, lawyer for the
school district, said an attorney
general’s opinion is not legally bind
ing, although he said it carried con
siderable weight.
Harris said it was undetermined
whether drive education is supple
mental or a part of public schools.
Hill issued the controversial rul
ing last month. The Northside
School District at San Antonio was
the second school system to buck
the mling.
The Houston School District, the
state’s largest, already had an
nounced its intention to ignore the
ruling. Houston’s superintendent is
Billy Regan, a former superinten
dent of North East School District
in San Antonio.
North East School District trus
tees voted last week to ask the Texas
Association of School Boards to file
suit to stop enforcement of the at
torney general’s ruling this year.
North East School District Supt.
Ivan Fitzwater said dropping stu
dent fees normally collected would
cost his district about $100,000 this
year if the ruling is upheld.
Cecil E. Rusk, executive director
of the Texas Association of School
Boards, said, “It’s (the ruling) the
worst timing in the world. Our
school districts are just not
budgeted to provide those kind of
services.”
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A series of related transportation
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Bryan-College Station area for use
in planning needed transportation
improvements.
Information will be collected
through interviews with selected
employers and residents. Three
agencies and the two cities of Bryan
and College Station are cooperating
in the studies.
The agencies are the Urban
Transportation Study Office of the
State Department of Highways and
Public Transportation (SDHPT),
the Texas Transportation Institute
and the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning of Texas A&M
University.
Some of the studies to he con
ducted are an employment survey,
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