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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Orthodox Win
Continued from Page 1
14 Mile and Lahser in Be-
verly Hills. While both men
said they would support bus-
ing for parochial students if
the money were available, as
is done in Southfield, both
said the quality of education
within the Oak Park Schools
was the major issue.
"I keep hearing from my
neighbors that they are leav-
ing the community," Seligson
told The Jewish News. "They
are not even leaving Oak
Park, but the Oak Park
school district." Most of Oak
Park north of Ten Mile Road
is served by the Berkley
school district and the section
of Oak Park east of Scotia is
in the Ferndale school dis-
trict. Seligson said the
Michigan Educational
Assessment Program (MEAP)
scores for the Oak Park
Schools have been among the
lowest in the state. "Schools
are the cornerstone of the
community," he said. "They
either bring people in or they
drive people out. The Oak
Park Schools have been driv-
ing people out."
Seligson said that the
members of the Oak Park
school board have been
watching the decline in edu-
cational standards for years,
but have done little about it.
"They are well-meaning
people, but they have been
unsuccessful. The district has
to get back to the three R's,"
he said. "The board doesn't
have a plan. It doesn't know
where it wants to be in five
years, in ten years."
Seligson called the asser-
tion that he ran only on the
busing issue "a blatant un-
truth." A management
analyst for the U.S.Army at
the Tank-Automotive Com-
mand, Seligson and his wife
have six children. Their four
children of school age attend
Beth Yehudah Schools.
Seligson was endorsed by
the Oak Park Education
Association, the union which
represents the district's
teachers. President Amy
Slagle, a teacher at Roosevelt
Middle School, said the union
was convinced that "Mr.
Seligson had an interest and
commitment to Oak Park
Schools." The union did not
endorse Roberg because of its
commitment to his opponent,
Dawn Doolittle, who heads
the Oak Park Area Council
Parent-Teachers Association.
Seligson and' Roberg also
received a vote of confidence
from Doolittle, who told The
Jewish News that she was
sympathetic to some of the
requests from the Orthodox
community. "They are tax-
payers too, but it is their
choice to send their children
to parochial school. However,
some of their requests are
justified."
She added that she sup-
ports Roberg's and Seligson's
contention that "some of the
expenditures in the school
district are outrageous."
The Orthodox community
has been rebuffed several
times in recent years by the
school board, according to
Roberg. He cited a recent
millage election which, he
charged, was deliberately
scheduled on Shavuot to dis-
enfranchise a negative Or-
thodox vote. He also cited the
busing issue and the school
board's "negative attitude"
toward having Yeshivah
Gedolah as a tenant in the
former Roosevelt Elementary
School near Ten- Mile and
Greenfield.
Roberg said busing was an
issue that was used against
the Orthodox candidates.
"Busing does not have my
The election
victory gives the
Orthodox Jewish
community three
representatives on
the seven-member
Oak Park school
board.
unqualified support. I'm not
going to take money from
other programs for busing."
Money was one of the is-
sues raised by Gutfreund.
She said the election brought
out members of the Orthodox
community "who haven't
voted in 30 years." Her con-
tention was supported by Oak
Park officials who said
Roberg carried Precinct 1 at
Oak Park High School by a
3-1 margin, while losing nar-
rowly in the election's other
three precincts. The area
served by Precinct 1 includes
many Orthodox families be-
tween Coolidge and Green-
field, and Nine and Ten Mile
roads.
In addition, while the
Headlee tax limitation
amendment and the school
district's .2 mill tax renewal
passed in the other precincts,
Precinct 1 voters narrowly
adopted Headlee by a 261-236
count, and voted against the
millage renewal 225-258.
The new school board's
agenda will not become clear
until after July 1 when the
new board members take
office. Meanwhile, Oak Park
earlier this year, at the re-
quest of board member Simon
Kresch and others, began
meetings with the State. De-
partment of Transportation to
determine what the district's
responsibility is toward bus-
ing non-public school chil-
dren.
Roberg qualified assertions
that the three Orthodox can-
didates are part of a deliber-
ate effort to pack the Oak
Park school board. He said