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* Vs3,1980. j ,4•• - I' • »HometownT» lV*: •' ‘ '•••. -.*• •. * i*. ; • iiof North Central Louisiana SiticMi■« : tf;/.*. ..V-i 4 1*• .' V .'■ . ■ ..•:.: ■•., ■' * ■' '?.•!*'‘ v ;T'f. V • '•*, :/•VV«'»\ : •• .to reviewtWorkin’ on the railroadLeader photo by David MathewsPhillip Jackson {loft) and'Henry Despommler work to repair faulty Insulation In the signal wiring on tho Monroe Street and Trenton Ave. crossings., • • • ■ . • • . • *. . Central Railroad, said the lines failed due to “poor drainage in the area.” The lines often fall during after heavy rains causing the crossing llahts to, The Lincoln Parish School Board met in closed door session for nearly 30 minutes Tuesday evening to review the progress of a federally-instigated desegregation suit agains t the parish’s two university laboratory schools.During the executive session, board members were briefed by Assistant District Attorney Tom Farrar and parish school Superintendent Fred Higginbotham.The case, which is an outgrowth of a 1976 suit filed by a group of Grambling residents, is still in litigation before U. S. District Judge Tom Stagg.Stagg has ordered that the suit notbe discussed in public.‘‘The judge has said he does not want it (the suit) aired in public,” Higginbotham told the board prior to the executive session. He also said meetings are being conducted with the U. S. Justice Department.Justice Department officials have asked that Grambling State University’s Alma J. Brown lab school and Louisiana Tech University’s A. E. Phillips lab school be further desegregated.The schools are predominantly black and white, respectively.Although the schools were not included in the original suit, the Justice Department later was successful inr adding the schools, universities and the state Board of Elementary andSecondary Education (BESE).The original-suit charged, among other things, discrimination in the location of proposed building projects.. The projects were included in a multi-million dollar bond issue which was rejected by voters.Federal courts eventually ruled against the original suits plaintiffs, thus clearing the parish school board.The two lab schools are designed not only for the education of their students, but also as teacher training facilities for their respectiveParents go backto school Mondav■?i *university education students;While both, schools receive some aid from the Lincoln Parish; School system, they are not under all of the same jurisdictions as totally parish run public schools since the lab schools are part of the universities.New RHS program.Board members also learned of a new business department; program, at Ruston High School,The exemplary program, which has been approved by BESE, would involve teaching. the use J ; of word processing by microcomputer. Using the computers, students would learn to correct business correspondence pii a video terminal before transmitting the work into final printed form.The program is expected to be operational within the next severalmonths.Gifted ruling In other reports to the board, Higginbotham said the state superintendents’ organization mid the Louisiana School Board Association has requested a meeting with state education officials to discuss a recent ruling by Attorney General William Guste that parish school boards7 must provMe programs for gifted andtalented vounosters m rivate sohols
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