Portland Observer Thursday, August 31,1978 Pag» 7 '
Bussing isolates Black children
Distribution of A.T. students from
sending school in 1977-78
(CCSI maps based on
dsts provided by PPS
Student Transportation
November, 1977)
(Continued from Page 1 Column 3)
Compare that with the experience
of the white students who go to their
neighborhood schools with their
friends and neighbors.
This isolation of Black children in
white schools has been carried out in
spite o f the research which shows
conclusively that Black children
achieve academically and socially in
a setting where they make up be
tween 20 and 23 percent o f the
population. In that situation they
can have the security and support o f *
their peers that enables them to
achieve.
The transfer situation is much the
same in all o f the Albina schools.
Eliot, with only 44 transfer students,
sends students to twenty different
schools in all three administrative
districts.
W oodlawn transferred out 233
students; o f these 133 are sixth
through eighth graders. Woodlawn
students went to 22 schools, in the
three areas.
Sabin transferred 179 children,
134 in the upper three grades. Those
students attended seventeen schools.
H um boldt transferred 286 stu
dents. A ll but 27 students were for-
ced to transfer because the school
only goes through the third grade.
The older students have no “ neigh
borhood school” but go to 25 dif-
ferent schools in the three ad
ministrative areas.
Vernon transferred 279 students,
o f which 190 were in grades six
through eight. Vernon students at-
tended 24 schools.
Irvington School, which is part of
a cluster with Fernwood as its middle
school, still transferred 186 students
to fifteen schools in the three areas.
Boise, which is the only kindergar
ten through eighth grade school in
.
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Distance traveled:
between 2.1 (, 10.7 miles
.
C ity EEO fo u n d d e fic ie n t
(Continued from Page 1 Column 6)
C O N TR A C T C O M P L IA N C E —
1) The City should establish a cen
tralized Contract Compliance O f
fice.
2) The present contract compliance
program should be redesigned to be
more effective.
3) The office should conduct an
impact analysis of its efforts.
4) The office should establish
clearly defined goals and objectives
and be staffed properly to handle its
functions.
5) The Contract Compliance Ad
visory Com m ittee should be re
act! vitod.
Since the M H R C evaluation start
ed, Pat Ban was hired as the City’s
Contract Compliance Officer. Ac
cording to Ban, her office is looking
into its responsibilities under
Executive Order 11246. Ban said she
is currently concentrating on ex
plaining parity to City contractors
and encouraging them to reach
parity, wherein a company’s work
force reflects the percentage of
minorities available in the area.
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M ayor Goldschmidt indicated
during the informal session that the
City should “ set up some kind of
random audit’’ to see if contractors
had equal employment opportunity
programs which are required by law
if those contractors are to bid for
federally funded projects. Up to this
point, the Mayor said, “ We blanket
through people with federal certific-
tion.”
A F F IR M A T IV E A C T IO N —
1) The office should identify the
causative factors for the high turn
over in minority and female em
ployment.
Affirmative action officer Alyce
Marcus indicated that although for
mal exit interviews were not em
ployed, her office has been tracking
the movement o f minorities and
women in and out o f the C ity ’s
work force and will submit a report
to the Council on that movement at
the end of the 1978-1979 fiscal year.
2) More minorities should sit on
Civil Service interview panels.
According to Ms. Maracus and the
M ayor, more qualified minorities
have been sought to sit on these
panels.
3) The A .A . Regulatory Commit
tee, composed of representatives of
the M ayor and each C ity C om
missioner, should meet during the
first quarter of the 1978-1979 fiscal
year.
4) The A ffirm ative Action O f
fice’s new EEO reporting system be
adopted and completed by bureau
and office managers.
G RANTS E Q U A L O PPO R TU
N IT Y PROG RAM —
1) The Grants Equal Opportunity
Program, mandated by City Ordi
nance 144724, be designed and im
plemented.
M H R C spokesperson Hazel G.
Hayes offered the Commission’s
support in developing viable
m inority purchasing and grants
programs.
The report was well received at the
informal session. Jordan called the
City’s Equal Opportunity Program
status “ encouraging,” yet a cause
for concern. “ The implementation
or Ordinance 144724 was en
couraging,*’ he said, because it
pulled all of the City’s effort under
one statute. However, the programs
were, “ not functioning at the level
where we hoped it would be at this
point.”
M ore consideration at the
program level is essential, he said.
M ayor Goldschmidt concurred,
noting that some consolidation had
already taken place when C E T A ’s
Affirmative Action function was in
corporated in Alyce Marcus’ office.
“ We still have a hell of a long way
to go,” said Jordan after M H R C
Co-Chairperson and Spokesperson
Hazel G. Hayes noted that Port
land’s Equal Opportunity efforts fall
behind those in Seattle and several
cities in California.
Albina, transferred 154 students to
22 schools in the three administrative
areas.
O f special significance is the fact
that students are transferred from
each school to all three ad
ministrative districts. The stated
policy of the district has been to keep
children within their own area. Each
area has its own adm inistration,
develops its own teaching methods,
selects its own textbooks and
curricula, and has used its own
testing methods. Children who cross
area lines have the added handicap
of going to schools where the other
students have had a d iffe re n t
teaching in prior years.
SUSPENSIONS
The School District claims not to
have info rm atio n to adequately
determine the effect o f this program
or academic achievement. What are
the effects socially? According to a
C o alitio n survey, approxim ately
thirty percent of the transfer students
have been suspended or expelled
during their career as administrative
transfer students.
The School District’s own report
o f suspensions during the six
months, September 1977 through
January 1978, show a great imbalance
in suspensions. Fifty-eight percent of
the suspensions at Jackson High
School were minorities, in a school
with an enrollment of only 14.8 per
cent minorities. Madison’s suspen
sions were 52 percent minority, with
a minority enrollment of 18.4 per
cent. Forty-three percent of Wilson’s
suspensions were minorities with a
minority enrollment of 8.1 percent.
Lincoln’s enrollment is 14.5 percent
m inority, yet 37 percent o f the
suspensions are minorities, etc.
On the middle school level, Binns-
mead, with a 17.6 percent minority
enrollment had 29 percent of its 41
suspensions against m inorities.
Seventy percent o f M a rk h a m ’ s
suspensions were minorities although
M arkham is only 12.7 percent
minority. Kellogg, with a minority
enrollment of 16.1, had 25 percent of
its suspensions involve minorities.
These are the conditions that wait
for many of the students who will
take part in administrative transfer
program which, according to the
news release, “ Under the program
there is a concerted and continuous
inservice training program for ad
ministrators, teachers, students and
parents in both receiving and sending
schools. A major aim o f this training
is to enable staff to work more effec
tively across racial, ethnic and
cultural lines in the school setting.”
K IN D E R G A R T E N
The District brings white children
into the Early Childhood Education
Centers in the Albina area to impact
the Black/white ratio. Although the
District claims that no neighborhood
children are forced out o f their
schools because o f this program, half
of the principals told Coalition staff
that they have turned away neigh
borhood children.
Kindergarten children do turn up
in School D istrict transportation
statistics. One group o f twelve kin
dergarten children is transported to
Jim Bridger School in Southeast Port
land, where they made up a class of
eighteen with six Bridger students.
Mark McClanahan also opposes
the plan, but for different reasons.
McClanahan, who has opposed
previous proposals on the grounds
that minority preferences are illegal
and unconstitutional, advised in an
August 24th response to Ms. McCoy
gnd Dr. Kleiner that the proposal
might be acceptable. “ The key to the
provision is the d efin itio n o f
‘minority business enterprise,’ which
is described as a
". . . business entity 50 percent or
more o f whose executive or
management employees are minority
individuals OP whose employment
o f minority individuals as craftsper-
sons is at the time o f bid filing and
remains in reasonable balance. “
^
,Rcas°nable
means that
. . . the percentage o f minority
individuals (including women) em
B O A R D QUESTIONS P L A N
In the Monday Board meeting,
McClanahan stated that he has not
offered an opinion on the validity o f
the plan, that he was unable to do so,
and therefore has not said it is legal.
In response to questions by Board
members Beverly York and Forrest
Rieke, he was unable to insure that if
someone brought suit under the plan
School Board members would not be
individually liable.
Thomas Kennedy, a member o f
the public, questioned the definition
of “ minority business enterprise.”
“ This reminds me o f slavery. A
Caucasion owned the plantation and
minorities were 95 percent o f the
workers. Who owns the plantation?
W ho does the work? Ownership
means taking the profits home. Em
ployees don’ t take the profits
home.” He accused the Board o f
playing games with the m inority
population.
McClanahan said the plan was
drafted for the purpose of promoting
employment and that it ignores
ownership.
Greg Batiste, form erly o f the
State’s Minority Business Enterprise
program , d iffe r with M cC lana
han’s view that state law prevents
a real M in o rity Business En
terprise program. “ The objectives of
an MBE plan is to increase the par
ticipation of minority business. I am
at a quandry as to why this inter
pretation of ownership comes about
and why the School Board has had so
many problems” in passing an
M in o rity
Business
Enterprise
program. Batiste promised to
provide the A ttorney G eneral’ s
opinion that the State minority set-
aside program is constitutional.
Finding so many discrepancies in
the program, Board member Wally
Priestley moved that the proposal be
postponed until the next Fberd meet
ing. The proposal w ill again be
discussed at a special Board meeting
on September 7th at 6:30 p.m.
Ms. M cCoy asked that the
proposal not be postponed, saying it
was important to her to be able to
vote on it before resigning from the
Board September 11th.
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addresses employment and not
ownership.
McClanahan does caution that,
“ Whether the set-aside and man
datory utilization provisions for
minority business enterprises violates
the Equal Protection Clause remains
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PPS board postpones MBE plan
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“ That is all wrong,” Jackson said.
“ The accepted procedure, by the
U.S. Bureau o f Labor and others, is
to require the same percentage in all
crafts and trades — and that is the
percentage of minorities in the labor
market, in the Portland metropolitan
area about six percent. That means
there are to be six percent minorities
in every trade.”
Jackson also explained that all
construction jobs in the Portland
area come under the ‘Home Town
Plan,* which contains the above
requirements and its approved by the
U.S. Department o f Labor. “ There
is no reason to try to change a ratio
that has been sanctioned by the
government merely to lessen the
positive effect on minorities. One ef
fect o f the D O L requirement, if
carried out, is to increase the number
of minority trainees, apprentices and
journeymen in the trades in which
minorities are under represented.
“ A ll the School D istrict plan
would do is reward white contractors
who are merely meeting their federal
requirements by giving them an ad
d itio n al slice o f the pie, while
refusing to deal withthe real issue of
the absence o f contracts going to
minority business.”
Tom Boothe, director of Contract
Management Association, also
favors the Multnomah County plan.
“ Actually, I suggested using any of
the plans now in effect,” he said.
“ This plan does not deal with
minority ownership and will have lit
tle impact on minority contractors.
We don’t have any members who
will be affected by it at all.” Boothe
favored passing the plan and attempt
ing to amend it later. “ It offers
nothing for minority enterprise but it
could help some minority craftsmen.
O f course it will do nothing if it is
just put on the books and forgot
ten.”
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