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Teachers discuss merger, minority guarantees
Kennedy raps Nixon
Ellen Law chosen
for reform seminar
Mrs. Ellen T. Iaiw, prin
cipal of Thomas Jefferson
High School, has l>een se
lerted to partiripale in a
unique national institute on
reformin'! secondary educa
tion. Four hundred of the
nation's leading educators
have been invited to the one
w»-ek session sponsored by
the American Association of
School Administrators, Na
tional Association of Secon
dary School Principals and
Charles F. Kettering Foun
dation's Institute for I)e
velopment of Educational Ac
tivities.
Working from reports of
studies conducted during this
year into the nature and
need for reform of America's
high schools, the educators
w ill be re la tin g national
trends to their local needs.
One of the primary discus
sion topics will be educa
tional alternatives and full
com m unity p a r tic ip a tio n .
Educational alternatives are
optional means of acquiring
learning outside the normal
high school.
These alter
natives have been started to
serve those students who
have not found the traditional
educational forms acceptable.
Such programs using com
rnunity businesses, institu
tions and resources are al
ready proving successful in
many locales.
The participants will hear
presentations by members of
the National Commission on
the Reform of Secondary
Education which has con
eluded it's investigations and
will release it's draft report
at the Institute. Some wit
nesses who testified before
the Commission also will be
meeting with the institute
participants.
Progress re
ports w ill be given on the
Study of American Youth in
the Mid Seventies which is
living sponsored by the Na
tional Association of Secon
dary School Principals and
other research on the or
ganization of secondary edu
cation.
The institute is designed
to give the educators an up
to dale picture of the need
for reform in secondary edu
ration and how best this ran
lie carried out. Participants
w ill lie exposed to »ome of
the latest information avail
able on the revitalization of
secondary education to serve
the nation's young |ieople.
Film company selects
Black singers, actors
More than 50 Black Port
landers will participate in the
filming of "IxMt in the Stars"
in Cottage (¡rove next week.
The film, produced by the
American Film Theater, is
based on Alan Paton's novel
"Cry the Beloved Country".
The film relates the story of
a young Black in rontempo
rary South Africa.
The
Black people from Portland
will |Mirtray a group of Zulus
seeing a man off on the train
to Johannesburg.
The film is direrted by
Daniel Mann, whose produc
lions include "The Bose Ta
too", "B u tte rfie ld E ig h t",
"For Love of Ivy", "Come
Bark L ittle Sheba", and
“ Maurie", the -.lory of Maune
Stokes.
Producers are Eddie Lewis
and Henry Weinstein, and
musical d ire c to r is Alex
North.
The picture stars Brock
Peters, Raymond St. Jacques,
Pullen Kelly, Clifton Davis
and Melba Moore. A number
of University of Oregon stu
dents and Oregon actors will
also have parts. The filming
has been done on location in
Jamaica and in the Holly
w is h ! studio. The train scene
will be filmed at the Village
Green in Cottage (¡rove.
Director Daniel Mann se
lected the Black actors and
singers at Bethel AME
Church on July 1 and filming
will begin July 9.
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Nero brings Mayor
to Black community
David M. Nero, Jr., Presi
dent of Nero Industries, Inc.
and Nero and /Associates
Inc., has invited Mayor Neil
Goldschmidt to an open forum
to answer questions from the
Black Community on his ad
ministration. This is to In-
held Tuesday. July 10. 1973,
at 3525 N.E. Union Avenue,
in the Nero Corporate Of
fices.
Nero suggests that citizens
seek to discover the mayor's
plans for employees of DEO
and Model Cities programs
at the time these programs
are phased out, his plans for
urban renewal and relocation
of families affected, his plans
for utilizing revenue sharing
funds in the Model Neigh
borhood and his efforts, if
any, to fill the void left due
to the reduction of funds for
such activities as the Model
Cities program.
Nero Industries is and has
been particularly concerned
with programs aimed at up
grading employed minorities
and finding suitable employ
ment for unemployed per
sons. This company has over
the past few years been
engaged in Operation Step
Up, a program designed lor
underemployed m inorities
and JOBS '70 program, a
Department of Labor pro
gram, designed for uneni
ployed disadvantaged per
sons.
Nero and Associates is a
sophisticated minority con
sulting firm with the capa
bility to perform physical
planning, urban develop
ment, social area analysis,
engineering, business sys
terns, systems engineering,
environmental systems de
sign and implementation and
(Please turn to pg. 8, col. 2)
Rice heads MEDIA
Robert L. Rogers, newly
elected president of the
Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan Economic De
velopment Industrial Alliance
(MEDIA) announced the ap
pointment of Harvey L. Rice
as director.
Mr. Rice has
held the position of tempor
ary co-director since the res
ignation of former director
Joseph Bostic.
Officers elected by the
board are Robert L. Rogers,
president; Ms. Willie Ransom,
vice president; and William
Hilliard, Secretary Treasurer.
MEDIA provides financial
and management counselling
to businesses in the Model
Cities area. MEDIA is funded
through the Model Cities
Agency for the current ac
tion year.
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Robert H Haran. Pres • 22 Ottices • Phone 248 1234
Home Ottice Frvnklin Bldg Portland, Oregon 97204
City seeks employees
The City of Portland holds
the key to employment op
portunity with a number of
new positions now open.
Positions that will soon he
available with the city in
elude: Emergency Planning
Coordinator. Planning Direr
tor. Director of Planning and
Development, City Attorney,
Neighborhood Organization
Director, Planning and De
velopment
Administrator,
Affirmative Action Officer,
City Planners, Commission
er's Assistant, Administra
tive Assistant, Research As
sistants. Police Officer Min
ority Recruiter, Police Of
ficer Trainees, Information
Coordinator, H u m a n Re
source Director and Assis
tant. and Clerks and Typists,
Application is to be made
at the City Civil Service
Office
Keynote speaker for the
National Education Aasocui
lion's 113th Annual held in
Portland this week. Senator
Edward Kennedy placed
much of the blame for lack of
confidence in the educational
system on the Nixon Ad
ministration. "No social pro
grams have suffered more
deeply from the vetoes of
this administration than our
educational programs. Eour
vetoes of education appro
priation bills in four years
a grand slam of vetoes of
American education
is
not evidence of leadership."
"What a cruel hoax it is,"
he said, "to claim that an
absence of federal responsi
bility, an absence of ade
quate federal resources, and
an absence of federal inilia
live are th« answers to the
educational needs of Anu-r
ica's children.
“Can we keep our promise
to the youth of American bv
spending more on bombing
North Vietnam in the last
nine months of 1972 that we
spend on Title I in the last
four and a half years '
“Can we keep our promises
to future generations shen
the President’s veto two
H«vs ago means that wi will
continue to spend $10 million
a day bombing the people of
Cambodia, while tens of mil
lions of American children
are deprived of a decent
education?
'The victims of our warped
priorities are not just the
children of Indochina. In a
very real sense, our own
children are victims too."
Kennedy described five is
sues that must be faced
during the next decade if
public confidence in public
eduration is to be restored.
The first test is whether
educators can convince par
ents and public officials that
education does make a dif
ferenee. Although education
may not be the best guar
anlee of a good income, lack
of education is detrimental to
high income. Also, the value
of education cannot be judged
on economic grounds alone.
A second test is whether
we can fulfill the promises
we have made to the educa
tionally deprived, promises
We have yet to keep.
“ We know there are 10
million children whose lives
are embittered and whose
hopes are oppressed by
poverty, m a ln u tritio n and
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Illu n e Wynn. President of th« Official Black Caucus
addresses the assembl'd delegates. Mrs W vnn r«-»-»-iv»-«l
standing ovation follow mg her remarks calling for a united
effort on behalf of leuche-'s rights to provide the best educa
tion for children. Mrs Vrfan call«-d for an end to fear of "the
community", saying "We'can never reach the minds of those
children if we continue to perpetuate the hostikty of tf„ »r
parents".
Congressman
political action
Representative James O'
hara iD Michigan) called for
an assessment of th»- short
comings of American educa
tion rather than a mere
reaction to criticism.
"For the past five years,
b»-cause the President of the
United States has looked at
education legislation almost
wholly in terms of it's cost
and because he has consis
tently assumed that it is in
the field of education and the
related field of health that
savings «an be most usefully
made
because the Presi
dent has chosen to seek a
reduced Federal role in edu
cation, the friends of educa
tion in the Congress have
had to defend existing pro
grams and to act as though
given expenditures were
true measures of the success
and value of t-ducation pro
grams."
(Please turn to pg. 4, col. 3)
Teacher charges
schools destroy kids
Jonathan Kozol, Boston
teacher and author of “ Death
at an Early Age", explained
p olitical indoctrination of
children in the public schools
during the Sunday morning
session of the NEA confer
ence in Portland.
Kozol stated that after 12
years of public t'dueation
children are molded into cold,
efficient, alienated techno
crats who believe that all
problems can be solved by
American technology. "Public
education works, in concert,
to create for us a sense of
calm, of manageable pain
and undeserved serenity.
School is the ether of our
lives by now:
the first
emaciation along (he surgical
road that qualifies the young
to be effective citizens, alert
to need but tempered as to
passion, cognizant of horror
but well-inoculated as to the
nature of response.
"It isn't a mistake when
the schools out in the white
suburban neighborhoods turn
out men like Spiro Agnew,
Richard Nixon, and William
H. Westmoreland. It isn't a
mistake when public schools
in ghetto neighborhoods turn
Jim Harris of Iowa is a candidate for the position of NEA
out a powerless labor pool of Vice President (President Elect). Harris advocates a strong,
unskilled men and women. independent NEA and opposes union of NEA with the
On the contrary, it is the American Federation of Teachers. CIO AF of L. He proposes
function of the public school a strong lobby in Congress to raise education to a top
in the ghetto neighborhood priority. Harris has been a classroom teacher in Des Moines
to do precisely this. To train for 20 years.
up an ample and unceasing
stream of docile janitors and
uncomplaining maids and
cocktail party waiters and
junkies to keep the cops and
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Minority Caucuses
seek involvement
YSOL leaves air
YSOL, the radio station
»’iterated by the young peo
pie of Albina, was closed
June 30th. The closure came
as a surprise to the young
people since they were under
the impression that they had
been funded for another year.
The program received an
initial grant of 15,000 from
the M etropolitan Steering
Committee.
Established in January of
1973, YSOL employed a full
time program director and
several part time employees.
Rut most of the labor as well
as some of the equipment,
was donated by young people.
1 he station offered not only
an outlet for talent and a
station directed to young
Blacks, but also was a train
ing ground for those in
terested in communications.
The National Education As
sociation Annual Conference
is considering a number of
questions which are of great
importance to Black teachers
and Black children. The two
main issues are the possible
merger of the National Edu
cation Association with the
Am erican Federation of
Teachers. AFL-CIO. Feelings
run high on the question;
those who seek greater
power in the unity of all
teacher organizations are op
posed by those who see NEA
as a professional organization
and do not want labor union
involvement.
The other crucial question
is the adoption of a new con
stitution.
This constitution
carries minority guarantees
guaranteeing minority group
membership in all com
mittees and boards. It also
endorses equal opportunity
employment and preferences
to hiring minority teachers
when there is a deficiency of
minority teachers due to past
documentation.
The official Black Caucus,
as well as the Chicano Cau
cus, the Asian Caucus, the
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