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Wednesday, October 8, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Racial identifiability questioned
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — An expert hired to prove Topeka never integrated its schools yesterday admitted that by his own rule of thumb, the city's three high schools do not qualify as "racially identifiable."
William Lamson, a Jackson, Miss, demographic expert, was testifying at a trial here that has reopened a landmark 1941 U.S. Supreme Court mandate to end racial segregation. He said his rule of thumb standard for making initial judgments of racially identifiable schools hinges on the percentage a school's minority population is above or below the school district's average.
Using that formula none of Topeka's three high schools qualified as racially identifiable as black or white in the past 16 years, Lamson
said during cross examination by Gary Sebelius, attorney for the school district.
In his defense, Larson said other criteria, such as location of new schools and the drawing of attendance boundaries, made him believe one school is clearly the white school, one is black and the other is a mixture.
The testimony came in the second day of hearings in the reopening of the historic Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case, which climaxed in 1954 when the Supreme Court struck down the "separate-bat-qual" doctrine and abolished segregation in public schools nationwide.
The case was reopened in U.S. District Court by the parents of 17 children, who contend Topeka schools remain segregated despite the 1954 ruling. They hope to prove
that the board intentionally concentrates black faculty in certain schools and influences housing patterns that create ethnic neighborhoods and perpetuate segregated schools.
Earlier yesterday, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ruled that Lamson's testimony on alleged Topeka school board actions to avoid integrating schools the past 35 years could be heard in full.
Rogers rejected arguments from defense attorney Charles McAtee, who had tried to bring an end to testimony by arguing Lamson's statements were "irrelevant, immaterial and should not be allowed."
McAtee was upset at testimony by Lamson that the school board used subtle means over the past three decades to re-establish separate schools for black and white students.
Lamson said the school board created three north-south corridors in the city which clearly were designed to allow white residents to move to the west and be assured of having white elementary and secondary schools for their children.
Lamson testified Monday that the school system "was determined to provide neighborhood schools for white residents while disregarding clusters of unused classroom space in the city in black schools."
The original complaint, filed Feb. 18, 1951, on behalf of 20 black elementary pupils, alleged that white children of elementary school age were allowed to attend neighborhood schools close to their homes, while blacks were forced to travel to separate all-black schools outside their districts.
Small districts do better on tests
The Associated Press
TOPEKA—An analysis of the 1986 Kansas Minimum Competency Test results shows students from small school districts performed better than those from larger districts, and the scores of blacks were generally lower than for members of other ethnic groups.
In addition, a report on the analysis presented yesterday to the State Board of Education showed scores on the statewide tests did not vary appreciably between districts with low per- pupil expenditures and districts with higher spending per student.
John P. Poggio, an official at the Center for
Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas, reported the findings to the board after he helped study the tests results.
The tests have been conducted in five of the past six years and are used to determine whether Kansas children in grades 2,4,6,8 and 10 are receiving the necessary minimum skills in reading and math.
The raw results of this year's tests were released in May and at the August board meeting, officials unveiled a "trend study," showing that most scores had improved substantially since 1980.
Poggio told the board the latest round of number crunching was to determine whether the tests were racially biased and to see how performances differed among students depending on sex, race, economic status, school district size, district per pupil spending and if the student attended public or private schools.
To determine whether the tests were racially biased, a "logical analysis" was performed by five panels representing different ethnic groups before the tests were administered, the report said. The tests were then changed based on the panels' recommendations.
However, the report said there was another way to determine whether the test was biased: to compare how students from different groups with similar overall abilities perform on individual test questions.
Legislator challenges Docking
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — House Majority Leader Jim Braden yesterday accused Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic nominee for governor, of misleading voters about his role in promoting economic development in Kansas.
Braden, RClay Center, is chairman of the Legislative Commission on Kansas Economic Development and the leading contender to replace Mike Hayden, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, as speaker of the House. Braden took aim at Docking's record on economic development during a news conference in the House chamber.
"I will not sit by while Tom deliberately misleads the voters." Braden said. "Tom Docking has no record in the area of economic development."
Braden defended Hayden for delaying action and opposing measures that many observers consider to be vital to economic growth; legalization of multi-bank holding companies, increased state aid to local school districts and a constitutional amendment that would legalize liquor-by-the-drink.
Although Docking claims to have been an "active member" of the Advisory Commission to the Department of Economic Development, Braden said that panel had met only twice during the last four years. Braden said the law that established the panel requires members to meet at least once each year.
Mike Swenson, a spokesman for the Docking campaign, said he was not sure why the advisory commission had not met more than twice in four years but that Docking had not depended on meeting schedules to promote economic development.
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