Education: Hold It

With school in session again, New York State school administrators were all set to enforce the new Feinberg law (TIME, April n) which bars Communists and members of subversive groups from the school system. The big step remaining for local school boards: to forward lists of subversives (and suspected subversives) to the State Board of Regents.

Last week the Feinberg law ran into a snag. The C.I.O. Teachers' Union filed suit in Brooklyn to restrain New York City's Board of Education from enforcing it. The Teachers Guild (A.F.L.) denounced it, and the Public Education Association cried, me too. Even Lieut. Governor Joe...

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