The Michigan Daily-Sunday, September 28, 1980-Page 5 Pact hailed in CHICAGO (UPI)-An agreement to desegregate Chicago's schools could be n historic breakthrough-provided nyone knows what it means. The school principals don't know. The students don't know. NEITHER, .IN FACT, do the Chicago Board of Education or the federal government, which reached agreement Wednesday after almost 20 years of haggling. Yet it is hailed as the first direct path toward breaking one of the most rigidly egregated school systems in the nor- thern United States,-if not the South. In technical terms, the Board of Education entered into a consent decree with the federal government to deliver a desegregation plan by next March and, if it is approved by the codrt, to implement it in September. THIS COULD MEAN black young people will be bused to predominantly white schools and white students will be uprooted and bused elsewhere. The program's focus is likely to be on magnet schools-the city's best to which students can transfer-along with new district boundaries, breaking down in part a cherished concept of neighborhood schools. There may well be some busing. Millions of dollars in federal aid are involved but the guts of the decision will not be revealed until the Chicago school system faces up to the fact that, of its 460,000 students; about 60 percent are black and 18.5 percent Latino. THOSE FIGURES could mean, at the extreme, that Chicago would have to try to square its school enrollments with its own population, Which is roughly 40 percent black, 20 percent Latino and the rest white or other. "It would be kin try it all at once Gray of Amundsen "It would brea school. Destroy t heart out of it. "IF iT WEREe thing, fine. If it wa damaging to the ci kids." Chicago blackst some kind of actio since 1961. In that time, the strated and kept t] in pursuit of go Chicago school sys to accommodatet to satisfy them o nment. CONSTANT TI made to cut off v Chicago d of disastrous if they schools unless Chicago shaped up. e," Principal Martin Drew Davis III, assistant attorney n High School said. general for civil rights, said, "Chicago ak the heart of the has become the first major city to see he school. Tear the that the way to resolve this matter is not by protracted litigation." each year, a gradual The National Association for the Ad- as sudden, it could be vancement of Colored people did not ommunity and to the see it that way. "I am at an absolute loss for words to have been waiting for describe how distressed we are," n to be demonstrated NAACP attorney Thomas Atkins said. "DANCIN' IS AN ELECTRIFYING, DAZZLING, HEART-STOPPING, GORGEOUS, SENSATIONAL, BROADWAY MUSICAL!" -e eed .w N.Y Daily News new nIwqu; ur, R. B ey have sued, demon- heir kids out of school ood educaiton. The stem has made moves them, but not enough )r the federal gover- HREATS have been ital federal aid to the SCHOOL OFFICIALS PREDICT PEACEFUL TRANSITION: Cleveland initiate CLEVELAND (AP)-School buses are set to roll in Cleveland tomorrow and by the end of the week, officials say' they will have brought about full- scale integration in Ohio's largest school system. ,'All officials involved predict a peaceful and successful transition from the partial desegregation in effect for the past school year. ,LAST YEAR, children in all elemen- tary, some junior high and a few, high schools in the 82,000-pupil system were bused from one part of Cleveland to another. Tomorrow, the school system begins busing about one-third of the more than 4n,000 students to be bused to achieve integration. By Thursday, full-scale * implementation is to be complete in the system where two-thirds of the students are black. The city is the most recent to employ stemwide desegregation. Los Angeles integrated its public schools with busing two weeks ago. iN CLEVELAND, all desegregation decisions are being made by a court- appointed administrator, Dr. Donald Waldrip, rather than by a school board. Wadrip-the hand-picked choice of U.S. District Judge Frank Bat- tisti-took over the desegregation plan, now in Phase III, on Aug. 15. Three weeks earlier, Battisti had found top school officials, including )Superintendent Peter Carlin, in con- tempt of his 1978' order to end segregation of the city's schools. Bat- "tisti conducted 23 days of contempt hearings in April and May. the desegregation of Cleveland schools has taken longer than expected because of administrative turmoil, court orders, and appeals, some of which are still to be decided. "IN 1978, when this desegregation started, there was a great deal of hostility toward the idea. In 1980, the issue has shifted to one of eompetence and whether this school system can run the district," said Leonard Stevens, director of the court-created Office of School Monitoring and Community Relations. Police officials say 292 officers will be also be assigned to monitor the situation. Cleveland has been free of violence in earlier integration efforts and none is expected tomorrow. s busin Bus problems twice before hampered integration efforts, but school transpor- tation director Richard Knisely says his department is ready. About 530 buses, whose drivers have spent a week making dry runs, will be in operation. Some pupils will be transported by city buses, with school vans taking them from dropoff points to the schools. KNISELY PREDICTS a 75 per cent success rate for the first day of school, with steady improvement in the following weeks. Last spring, during Phase II junior high school desegregation, the success rate was closer to 25 percent, he said. 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