paizatiou,
.roup aud
.,.. .. lIICI aad --QUeI
proteatiDg the IDellIUI"e
• the IDgenaOl'
CJWIl propouJ.
A ooalition c::aDed Up IDd
Out of POYerty W'lC& COD­
cemed •• to come to the
Call U aited ethodiat
Churm, 3901 Cau SeIdeD
5 p.m., M�day J 5 b
o
for r
peo to call in protest to I
Governor BlaDchard'
Detr . office (313) 256-1003
d Governor Blanchard
collect at his LaDs· office at
(517) 373-3-400.
. seekiDg farthec in-
fo tioD should can DiaDe
8enw'd t (313) 831-1040.
Marian Kra , PresideDt
of the Welfare· Union
waraed re . 18 to 2S
year 0 &om .social service
milht be a step toward
abo· . social- service fo
those ithout children al-
toFtber·
She � that there ID
empt by State Reprae.ata-
, call
ration
t
pre eat propose
AfriceD-A ericaD com­
mUDity aDd tbe federal
goyenuaeaf.
. I
WHY RRIPIlII!�'
Accor(iiDI to Seater
desCCDdaDts of
Africans held ill bondage,
forced to bar· com­
pensation, haYe the oral and
legal right to share ill the
ealth generated by thi
country".
"The African-American
community· till truggling to
recover from the consequen­
ces of lavery. The destruc-
C ti Pa
t reeeat al-
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LANSI G - There are
40,000 t-ri k- children in
Mkbigan .
These dilldren are certain
Michigan preschooler , 2 .
through S .. year -olds ho
have 'not yet entered
Michigan's educational s -
tem.
Of th e 40,000 children,
only s.soo are being educated
through ta te- funded pre­
school education progra ,
that are provided free of
charge to parents by local
school ·tri .
Donald Bemis, e super-
iIlteocieot of public iastruc­
tio said it· important for the
tate to target program
toward these at-ris dilldren
to help insure they have posi­
tive educational experi nee.
-Often chools are the only
areas 0 sanity and refuge for
th children," Bemis id,
any factors are con­
sidered en determining if a
child i at-ri k. Included
amoog the f ctor are in­
come, family ize, heal I
ling chool bistori ,family
den .ity nd other
. oeconomic facto .
Carolyn Log , su pervisor
of the early childhood educa-