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MARCH 2q APRIL 01 1 Q'IL'
. eject schools'
500,000 plan
A group of paren calling them-
lvea "Blac P ren for Quality
1!ducation," said they upported em­
powered school but not by the
board' $500,000 definition.
All but one member of the Detroit
Board of Ed lion, during a March
24 board mee ng at the School
Center Building, voted to implement
a school empowerment plan, as
defined by a hired consulting firm.
Long-time Board Member Gloria
-----rch for
n�
to aprtng on
women' right to legal abo
dona. re I ion that
DIIld the grea t impact
00 .�rican American and
other minority women.
Minority women are more
than twice likely white
women to have an abortion
and poor women are three
times more likely to have one
• tJuan are financially secure
women, according to the Na­
tional Organization for
, Women (NOW).
NOW is organizing a
march for abortion rights on
AprilS, vowing to send a mes­
sage to lawmakers that no mat­
ter what the supreme Court
decides, women wi 11 fight for
their reproductive freedom.
Faith Evans, one of the or­
ganizers for the AprilS march
insists that the' ue of choice
is crucial for African-
American women. "Of the
Dumbers of women having
abortions, (proportionally)
Black women have them at �
highest rates ... If women, the
large t population (in this
country), are going to be ter­
rorized by the Supreme Court,
then the highest impact will be
on Black women,"
WHETHER OR not the
Supreme Court oudaws abor­
tion, the right to choose has
S NOW,A10
Q.
Do you
·think
ikeTy on
hould go
to j iI?
Cobbin voted g inst implem nting
the board' $500,000 plan, the price
charged to the district by Arthur
Ander on Con ulting nd rry
Wilkerson and As ociate to re-
arch nd devise it.
"I don't think (my concerns) have
been dd ed ubi point," Cobbin
id. "I don't have enough time to go
through all of the elements."
The rest of the board members
o voted "ye " making th final vote
10-1.
THE FIRMS CONTRACTED
by the board came up with a written
definition of empowerment it re­
lat to the Detroit Public Schools.
The definition says, "empower­
ment for Detroit Public School will
transfer control of the educational
program ... of the budgeting and
spending program ... of personnel
resources ... and, of expectation for
the student and parental involve­
ment."
Board Member Lawrence Patrick
Jr. reported that during everalofthe
board' community outreach meet­
in&' n executive summary introduc-
o
o
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FLODEAN S. AIGGS
" Writ.,
began the evening of March 23.
Protester ang the word of
"Shut'em Down," a ong by e
York-ba ed nationali t rap group
Public Enemy. They had vowed to
tay in the gymn ium "as long a
neces ary" un il all their demands
. were met concerning the "injustice
African American students have suf­
fered at the hand of the administra-
Politicians .examine voters.' anger at incumbents
A two-day sit-in by Black stu­
dents at the University of Detroit­
Mercy ended quietly last week.
"Shutting down" the University
of Detroit-Mercy Cali han Hall,
where both college and high chool
b ketball teams play, is how about
75 African American tudents
describe their it-in protest which
S SEIZE, A10
By U!AH AMUEL
StIff Writ.,
But what about th e in m tly Black, mo tly poor
urban a where voter parncipatton is generally
lacking? Do they feel the same way? Do they care?
During thi election year, The Michigan Citizen
will be asking local nd/or Black politicians for their
insigbt..
Dr. Lenora Fulani, a New York activist and New
Alliance Party presidential candidate, believes that
BUMS, A10.
Bwanda Jackaon. Unlver Ity of Detroit· .rey aophomor. and
prot at apokep raon talka with comrad a during aecond day of
d monatratlon at CaUhan Hall. (photo by Flod n • Rlgp)
A recent article in TIME magazine examined th
growing di atisfaction among middle-cl voters
with current elected officials. Fed up and frustrated,
these people are aid to be ready to elect anybody j t
to get the incumbents out. ues uch as term limita­
tions and accountability requirements are also a re ult
of the public anger at current officeholders.
But that' middle-cl , white American vote .
'Con
iout'
•
In,
or jO· n force
Prote
By FLODEAN S. RIGGS
.. "Writ.,
Against AIDS said the.pro e t w an
extension of his effort to get the con­
dom distribution in the schools' ue
on a Detroit Board of Education
meeting agenda at least for d' cus-
ion. ..
Conn approached the board with
the propo al·to distribute condom in
the school. during a Feb. 11 meeting
aoo .nothing has been done inee,
Conn aid.
"They don't want to deal with it,"
he said. "They're saying it' against
the law."
"Condoms in and Pep i out!"
chanted the crowd of demonstrators
in front of the Schools Center Build­
ing March 24.
Steve Conn, a Cass Technical
High School teacher and poke per­
on for an Emergency Public
School Program for the Fight
. THE BOA D, made up of
politicans, lawyers, a doctor and
others, don't care about the real -
sues because tbey are out of touch,
he said, citing that former p ideot