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"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