Chicago weighs a hotly disputed voluntary integration plan
"I'm not going in there wringing my hands," snapped Chicago School Superintendent Joseph P. Hannon last week as he prepared to face critics on the Illinois Board of Education. Concerned about the persistent separation of races in the city's 512,000-student public school system, third largest in the U.S. (after New York City and Los Angeles), the state board put Chicago's schools on probation in 1976. It will take another hard look at segregation in the system at a public meeting later this month. If the board does not...
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