Education: Expensive Product, Cheap

Seattle school kids, decked out in Gay Nineties costume, paraded through downtown streets, waving posters which said that their schools were as outmoded as the clothes they wore. At their teachers' prompting, they went home and bothered their parents likewise. Last week harassed fathers & mothers voted (90,000 to 15,000) a $10 million bond issue to build new schools and modernize old ones.

What the Seattle youngsters (and their teachers) accomplished, many another city's educators wanted. Would taxpayers elsewhere take a hint?

New York City schools lost 1,119 teachers in 1945, were losing more & more. G.I.s who were once teachers were...

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