Integrated Hyde Park High Needs Racial Balance And Relief
The Hauser report defines integration as schools with at least 10 percent Negro and 10 white students or 10 percent or more of either group. Hyde Park High is 88.4 percent Negro, 9.1 percent white, and 2.5 percent other, making it nonintegrated under both definitions. Overcrowding compounds the crisis as enrollment nears 67.2 percent over capacity with 76.5 percent projected. The community calls for an integrated high school to preserve racial balance and educational quality.
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Hauser Report
Chicago Public Schools
Hyde Park High School
Hyde Park High
Chicago Board of Education
Chicago
Willis
Hyde Park-Kenwood
O’keefe
Board of Education
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Hyde Park Herald urges integrated high school for Hyde Park Kenwood
The Hyde Park Herald details the 1966 school budget debate urging the Chicago school board to provide an integrated high school in Hyde Park Kenwood. It notes local racial composition with 66.0% Negro elementary students and 30.7% white, arguing for immediate action amid broader school overcrowding concerns.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Chicago School Board
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Hyde Park High
Curb Repair Crisis in Chicago Town Ward Faces Shortfall
Alderman warns city will repair only a fraction of needed curbs as weather and traffic accelerate decay. Fifth Ward's 310000 feet of curb require 18 summers at current pace, with 59 high needs sites and Midway Plaisance demanding work. State gasoline tax funds two contracts yearly but falls short.
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Chicago
Fifth Ward
Department of Streets
Ward Yard
Midway Plaisance
Midway
Letters to the Editor on new high school plan and integration
A year of talks on a proposed high school yields acceptance of partial goals. The piece notes funds, administration, and public support, with integration as a key motive and education for all as another aim.
Plea for Sanity and Compromise on High School Education
A letter urges new concepts in high school to fit modern communities. It argues against old elite versus deprived schooling stereotypes and calls for practical site ideas, compromise, and a pleasant learning environment. Contained in a community discussion by Alice Schlessinger.
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South Shore High
Bruce Sagan
Florence Goold
Mary Louise Stauffer
Jean Garner Jacobs
Vena Skonick
Ralph Weston
Fred Fuller Bennett
Carence P. Dresser
Hyde Park Herald Inc
S. Harper
Telephone Midway
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5Th Ward
Leon M. Despres
Ald. Despres
Alice Schlessinger
Hyde Park Herald
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