PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday A p ril 22. 1971
Democratic Minority Report Tourin*
Educators
H ari H. Haas, House Dem. le a d e r
State Rep. Bernard Byers
has proposed that one seat be
subtracted from each house of
the Oregon Legislature. This
proposal would elim inate the
possibility of a continuing tie
vote In organizing, such as the
one we faced at the beginning
of this session.
We were happy to see that the
Republican
legislators, after
years of opposition and rejec
tion , have finally endorsed the
Democratic property tax re lie f
proposals; specifically, a v a ri
able ratio property tax assess
ment.
This session we are going to
try a new approach-in order to
draw a coherent program out of
the growing morass of proposed
legislation,
the Democratic
caucus w ill select one Senator
and one Representative on each
issue to determine the senti
ments of the caucus as a whole
In preparing legislative pack
ages and position papers fo r in
troduction In the legislature.
In 1939, the Oregonian Legis
lature established the Rogue
R iver Coordinating Board and
provided that three members—
a m iner, a fisherman, and a
"m em b er at large” should sup
ervise the use of the Rogue.
The RRCB has deteriorated to
Black teacher protection
the point where it now exists
largely as an agent fo r mining
interests and has presided over
the gradual diversion of the riv
e r Into the role of a sewer to r
lron-oxlde wastes from placer
mining operations. The RRCB
is a waste of taxpayer dollars,
Is the guardian of mining oper
ations along the Rogue, and
It poses a threat to becoming
a nuisance to the effective oper
ation of Oregon’ s Environ
mental Quality Control Comm,
which has a mandate to act on
behalf of a ll Oregonians rather
than on behalf of sectional in
terest.
if any single quality charact
erizes the thrust of the Demo
cra tic caucus this session, it is
a sincere commitment to the en
vironmental quality of the State
and a belief that this cannot
be attained by marginal effo rts,
nor can it be achieved by under
cutting the authority of the En
vironmental Quality Control
Commission.
Nearly th irty members of a
special
Western a ir tour of
innovative and advanced edu
cational
fa cilitie s w ill v is it
Portland CommunityColIege on
Saturday, A p ril 17.
I he group w ill breakfast at
the College, with food service
provided by students inthePCC
Commercial Food Preparation
program, and then w ill tour the
M t. Sylvania fa cilitie s which
won a recent national archi -
tectural award from the A m e ri
can
Association of
Junior
Colleges
and the American
Institute of A rchitects.
The visiting group is made up
of educational adm inistrators,
teachers, researchers, a rc h i
tects, businessmen and school
suppliers on a tour of some 20
selected elementary, secondary
and community college fa c ili
ties in the West.
M arshall High School, known
fo r its computerized modular
schedule, w ill be another v is it
ation site fo r the group while in
Portland.
The tour is sponsored by the
Minnesota
School F a cilitie s
Council, with headquarters in
Minneapolis.
cited statistics from Florida in
dicating
that more than 1,000
black teachers had been dropped
in the past three years. Precise
figures from other states were
not available at the time of the
report.
The National EducationAs-
sociation
has asked a federal
appeals court togive black edu
cators more protection against
discrim ination in the process of
integrating public schools. The
NEA petitioned the F ifth C irc u it
Court of Appeals to broaden an
order issued in 1969 that requir
ed
school systems to apply
'* reasonable, objective, and
non-discruninatroy standards”
in staff reductions caused by
school desegregation. NEA said
the 1969 order left too m uchdis-
cretion to the school d is tric ts .
NEA
said 1,072 black edu-
cators have been dropped from
school
systems in Alabama,
Georgia, F lorida, Louisiana and
M ississippi since 1968. During
the same period, school system
in the five states have added
5,575 white educators. NEA said
its figures came from computer
M arket
$150,000
gross
fOwner re tirin g . Sale includes
very nice brick building. Owner
operator can make $12,000 year.
$7500 down payment includes
$3,000 inventory and $4500 on
building and equipment. Balance
on Easy payments or s h o u ld
qualify fo r m inority economic
opportunity loan.
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tapes of the Department
of
Health, Education and Welfare
The Race Relations Inform a
tion Center found last fa ll that
displacement due to school de
segregation is "decim ating the
teachers and threatening black
principals with extinction in
11 Southern states.” The survey
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