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Excerpt from Minority Teachers in an Era of Retrenchment: Early Lessons in an Ongoing Dilemma: A Followup Report of the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, December 1982 The Commonwealth's progress through these challenges will remain of interest to public administrators for whatever legal and administrative precedents or solutions it eventually yields. Much more than the administrative perspective, however, is involved in questions of the relationship between races in the schools. On August 30, l982, just prior to the Opening Of the l982-83 school year, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education John Lawson found it necessary to send a memorandum to school superintendents and school committee chairs regarding a serious increase in Massachusetts of racial and anti-semitic acts Of the increasing frequency of these acts occurring in our public schools. The presence of minority teachers, many have asserted, is a crucial factor in addressing such situations. In sum, Proposition 2-l/2 is not a discrete factor but an event that embraces and illuminates a whole range of inter-related conditions. As such, it serves the Advisory Committee in this report as an occasion to look both at Specific changes in the employment Of minority teachers in Massachusetts and also at the general conception of their roles in the schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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