Since last spring the world's biggest public school system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak. The New York State Legislature and Mayor LaGuardia knocked $8,300,000 out of the schools' budget. The Board of Education at once hoisted an SOS ("Save Our Schools"), but the public paid little attention.
New York City's United Parents Associations and teachers' organizations thereupon began to raise alarms. They distributed more than 2,000,000 pamphlets among the State's citizens, made 54 radio broadcasts. When the Legislature convened last month, it got thousands of letters...
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