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Parents Act to End School Chrisis

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
S—Eriday, Fab. 2, 1973

Comay to Remain

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Au-
thoritative sources in Jeru-
salem said that no changes
were foreseen in the near
future in the position of Is-
rael's ambassador to Eng-
land.

Recent newspaper reports
had suggested that Gideon
Rafael, a former director-
general in the foreign minis-
try, would replace Ambassa-
dor Michael Camay.
The
sources explained that the
newspaper r eports were
"purely speculative."

They added that they are
sending telegrams to Katz:
to William Avrunin, presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare
Federation: to Mandell Ber-
man; and to Julian Tobias,
chairman of its education
committee, urging them to
keep the schools open. Other
parents were asked to bom-
bard Federation with tele-
grams and phone calls.

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measures.
Parents of children in both
Borman and Cohn were
present at the Tuesday eve-
ning meeting and pledged to
mount a vigorous campaign
to keep the two schools open.
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There are more than
pupils in those branches
which. parents say, repre-
sent the community's little
remaining presence in the
Northwest Detroit and Li-
vonia areas. Bussing to other
branches has been promised,
but the parents agree that the
long distances would cause
great inconvenience.

At the same time, in a
petition to the UHS board,
a group of parents led by
Ralph Levy from the Bor-
man branch demanded the

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immediate removal of the
superintendent of the UHS.
More than 160 parents signed
the petition, which also de-
manded "an audit of the
UHS and the development
of a fiscal reporting system"
and "a change in the struc-
ture of the board of direc-
tors to include elected, voting
board members from the
duly constituted parent
groups of each school affili-
ated with the UHS."

The strong applause which
greeted the latter gave some
indication of the mood of the
parents Tuesday evening.
"For the first time," said
Ethel Silberg, "I heard that
the second session will end.
The board answers to no one.
The only way we parents will
know what's happening is to
make the board accountable
to the parents and the com-
munity.

"Our group has tried many
times to question the board.
Our paid-up members of the
UHS have tried to attend
open meetings but were kept
out. We have to show the
board that it is accountable
to us."

To become a "member" of
the UHS costs $10 a year.
Katz said that members are
invited to the annual meet-
ing, at which time they may
vote on new members of the
board. Although a nomina-
ting committed proposes new
board members, there is also
a provision that they be pro-
posed by petition. Katz said
in all the years he has been
active in the UHS, he has
never seen such a petition
circulated.

Levy said that he has re-
quested from the UHS office
300 UHS membership appli-
cations to be circulated at
the meeting Sunday morning.

The question of arbitration
figured prominently in the
discussion. Teachers union
president Joseph Bares said
the teachers are ready to
submit to binding arbitration.

Asked the board's feeling.
Katz responded: "We will
not submit to arbitration."
lie cited as an analogy the
insistence by Israel that she
sit down, face to face with
the Arabs, to negotiate a
peace settlement. Similarly,
he said, the UHS board re-
fuses to have a settlement
impose from above.
"The
Jewish community has said
you (the board) have a man-
date to run the system as
well as you can, and the
board is not going to abdi-
cate that responsibility."

Later, a parent asked: "I
wonder who Mr. Katz thinks
are the Arabs in the school
issue?"
Rabbi Charles Rosencz-
veig, chairman of the teach-
ers' union negotiating com-
mittee, described as the
three major issues separ-
ating the union and board as
follows:
"The insistence of the ad-
ministration's intention this
UHS to close the Cohn and
Borman branches.
"The UHS board and ad-
ministrations intention this
year to depart from a 50-
year policy of two sessions
at the UHS and to eliminate
the second session.
"The insistence of the
board spokesman that it re-
fuses to pay the teachers for
the time they have been
locked out of school."
(Rosenczv•ig did acknowl-
edge, however, that following

an earlier strike in the fall,
when it was thought that a
contract had been approved,
the UHS did pay the teach-
ers for the days they were
out).
Although Rosenczveig saw
these as the three major
issues, many other were
brought up on Tuesday eve-
ning. While the parents so2-
ported the teachers on many
points, they expressed agree-
ment with Katz that there
should be ongoing evaluation
of teachers. Baras responded
that such evaluation ought to
be conducted for both teach-
ers and administrators.

On the issue of the elimina-
tion of the second session,
Baras said the reason cited by
the board was "to bring in
new, young and promising
teachers. The senior teachers
are supposed to be willing to
sacrifice 40 per cent of their
pay to accommodate the so-
called "promising" teachers.
This is unfair and unjust."

Katz said the decision is
made "with a heavy heart.
If we have declining enroll-
ment, we must decide: Do
you keep some teachers on
a 20-hour week? Then some
12-hour teachers must go.
If we reduce the week to 12
hours, then some 20-hour
teachers will have to cut
back." There are currently
eight UHS teachers on a 20-
hour week.

Katz argued that the
elimination of the 6-8 p.m.
session wil make it possible
to provide greater variety of
classes during the • earlier
hours because there will be
a greater number of children
in school at any one time.
He insisted that most parents
dislike the second session.

At the same time, some
parents said they felt that
the change in policy would
mean an inconvenience for
many of them.

Parents of the Cohn

and

Borman children, who argue
that their children will be

deprived of a Jewish environ-
ment with the closing of the
two schools, were supported
by Harold Strom, a parent
who attends the Midrasha.

High Court to Hear Parochiaid Appeal

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
U.S. Supreme Court agreed
to hear an appeal against a

New York state parochiaid
law.

The Committee for Public
Education and Religious Lib-
erty (PEARL) said it was
"deeply gratified" by the high
court's action.
The appeal stems from the
case of PEARL v. Nyquist
(N.Y. State Education Com-
missioner Ewald Nyquist).
The PEARL salt was aimed

at a three-part law enacted
by the state legislature and
signed by Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller in May 1972.
Two parts of the law, ruled
unconstitutional by a Federal
District Court last October,
provided
building mainte-
nance grants of up to $4,-
000,000 a year for repairs,
heat, light and cleaning for

non-public schools in dense-
ly populated urban areas;
and provided direct state pay-
ments of 550 per elementary

school pupil and $100 per
secondary school pupil to low
income parochial school par-
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of the MIS is away from the
elementary and high schools
and toward the Midrasha.
"But where do you get stu-
dents for the Midrash if you
close the schools?" He noted
that 25 per cent of the high
school students are grad-
uates of the Borman branch.
If it's not economically
viable to keep open two
branches with 160 students,
he said, "how is it viable to
keep the Midrasha open for
40 - 50 students? I'm already
a Jew. How are you going
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