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Few whites attending L.A. schools
LOS ANGELES (AP) - White students are attending Los Angeles public schools in slightly higher numbers since the start of an integration program this fall, but opponents of the court-ordered bans say white让学生在校园 short of school of officials's expectations.
The busing of 62,000 fourth-through-eighth graders in the nation's second-largest school district began peacefully. Sept. 12 as students returned to classes after court cases spanning 15 years.
At the first of the school year, buses carried only a few white youngsters across the 711-square-mile school district, from the outer city to inner-city minority schools. Since then, attendance by white students has increased daily. But the district's figures released last week indicate that thousands are staying at home and illegally enrolled in neighborhood schools.
minority "exchange" schools. That figure is about half the number now expected, but only a third of the number the district had expected when it set up the program. In 2015, black and Mexican-American students traveled to valley schools each day last week.
ABOUT 4,100 white students were being bused by court order to predominantly
Monday, September 25, 1978
Truant officers have started calling white parents to find out why their children are not in school and to urge them to abide by the law.
If parents insist on keeping their children
LaMunyon said he and his staff thought it was important to boost the ranks of the department as soon as possible. He said he had considered the qualifications of more than 163 applicants for reinstantment vestedday.
Jobs offered to most policemen fired in week-long Wichita strike
WICHITA (AP)—Most of the Wichita police fired last week for participating in a week-long strike against the city have Richard LaMunson said yesterday. Chief Richard LaMunson said yesterday.
"At this point, the staff and I this morning at a meeting decided that there were approximately 102 officers out of those who were on the ground, back and could become contributing members of the police department and also would not create internal problems," he
LAMUNYO ANNOUNCED Friday that the 164 officers who were fired and the six
La Munyeng met with the 107 officers yesterday afternoon in two meetings. Then
Under the process directed by Judge David Calvert of Sedgwick County District Court, 25 former police officers authorized strength uduring the rehiring process. Because 25 new recruits were hired during the strike, 56 former police officers who have applied to return to work are now eligible.
who resigned would be considered for reinstatement if they indicated an interest by 5 p.m. Saturday. Of those, six officers had indicated they did not want to return. One officer did not report his intentions by the deadline.
'None of them has been eliminated in terms of being rehired. They all still work.'
"I WANT TO meet with them personally
LaMuynon said that if the openings were filled from those applying for rehiring, he would send the 26 recruits hired during the strike back to the regular police training program. During the strike, they were being trained on the job.
before I make any decision on them," he said.
The police department hopes to resume normal shifts no later than 6 a.m. today. The department has been working on 12-hour shifts at about 50 percent of its manpower for more than a week during the strike. The department is prompted by a salary dispute with the city.
The strike by policemen and firemen ended Thursday when a new contract
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"In general, the position of this office will be to obtain voluntary compliance," said attorney Burt Pines. "But we are certainly prepared to bring criminal prosecutions to enforce the compulsory education law."
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"We have achieved integration to this degree and we're going to keep it in place. We're going to hope the educational community can be a part of our team and youymmists will want to be part of it."
WILLIAM J.  J.HONSTON, schools superintendent, said, "I wish there were more Anglo youngsters. But if that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
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Jerry Halverson, board attorney and associate superintendent, said the plan's original goal was for no more than 60 per cent of one ethnic group in any classroom involves.
The district was ordered by the California Supreme Court in 1976 to take all "reasonable and feasible" steps to desegregate 165 of its 600 schools, but it was never told exactly what constituted integration.
Of the $70,000 students enrolled in the school district, second in size only to Chicago's, 53 percent have Hapasan, 34 percent black and 7 percent Asian.
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