THIS ISSUE 60c
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
FEBRUARY 6, 1987 127 TEVET 5747
Yeshivah Parents Ask
Oak Park For Busing
Round-trip transportation is sought for Beth Jacob
girls school in the Birmingham School District
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
Should the Oak Park schools bus
Oak Park children to private schools
outside the district? Some Oak Park
parents think so.
During the question-and-answer
session at a recent Oak Park school
board meeting, a handful of parents
requested cross-district busing to
private schools, specifically to
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah in South-
field and the Sally Allan Alexander
Beth Jacob School For Girls in Be-
verly Hills, within the Birmingham
school district. The parents cited
Southfield — which buses to Beth
Jacob — as a precedent. The Oak
Park board did not reply to the re-
quest.
While the issue is not a
"crusade" at this point, according to
Naomi Roberg who made the request,
the parents want to make the board
aware that people are interested.
"Right now Oak Park only pro-
vides transportation to public schools
within Oak Park," she said. "We ask
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To Combat Prejudice
ADL project to involve students throughout
metropolitan Detroit, WDIV TV and Free Press
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tures to the project's goals.
The classroom component will
A three-pronged approach to re-
ducing prejudice in the Detroit area cost $234,000 and envisions training
was announced yesterday by the 3,000 teachers in a curriculum that
Michigan Region of the Anti- was piloted by the ADL in Boston in
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. 1985. The intermediate school dis-
The year-long project will combine tricts in Wayne, Oakland and
special projects and classroom ses- Macomb counties have endorsed the
sions for middle school and high project, and ADL is contacting the
school students throughout south- districts in Washtenaw, Genessee,
eastern Michigan, as well as a year- Livingston and Monroe to partici-
long commitment from WDIV-TV pate.
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