Regents urge easing ban on aid to parochial schools
The State Board of Regents told Constitutional Convention delegates to relax the prohibition on using public funds for private schools and to remove tax and debt limits on local units. They warned against locking in sharp provisions on busing, neighborhood schools, or financing. The board favored ending the Blaine Amendment but urged preserving religious freedom and letting the Legislature support private schools within constitutional bounds. They also urged a taxpayer suit right against public officials, a mandate for broader higher education, and modernization of tax and debt limits to empower school districts while maintaining state partnership. The Regents want the Legislature to keep electing Regents and the commissioner of education, resisting direct election proposals.
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Robert 5. van Fleet
Omaway
Albany
State Board of Regents
New York State
Plattsburgh
Education
California
Regents Rule Out One Man, One Vote in New York
Supreme Court rules the New York State Board of Regents constitutionally chosen by Legislature with 15 members from 11 judicial districts plus four at large. Albert Shanker argued Regents should be gubernatorially appointed and district based. Court affirms Appellate Division, saying Regents are not a legislative body and not subject to reapportionment.
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Albany
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
New York State Board of Regents
Court of Appeals
Albert Shanker
Kings County
High Court
Board of Regents
Supreme Court
Shanker
Lawyer opposes KO of surrogates courts in Albany
Ulster County delegate H. Clark Bell at the State Constitutional Convention backs keeping surrogates courts but proposes a public guardian to curb patronage. He argues merger would worsen congestion and would remove specialists, while a salaried guardian could represent infants and incompetents in surrogate matters,Replacing private guardians.
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Albany
Ulster County
Bell
Surrogate’s Court
Supreme Court
OCCC first 2 year college to join NUEA and AUEC
Orange County Community College became the first two year college in the United States admitted to the National University Extension Association. President Robert T. Novak announced OCCC joined the Association of University Evening Colleges, joining Miami Dade Junior College Mohawk Valley Community College and Queensborough Community College. The college offers credit and non credit courses in seven Orange County communities and runs evening four nights a week plus Saturday sessions to boost earning power and life skills. Lewis C. Popham III will accept the membership certificate in New Orleans on November 7.
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Middletown
Orange County Community College
United States
National University Extension Association
OCCC
Robert T. Novak
Novak
Association of University Evening Colleges
Canada
Harvard
Cornell
Notre Dame
New York University
NUEA
Orange County
Nuea Board of Directors
Ann Arbor
Mich
Howard Walker
University of Kansas
Miami-Dade Junior College of Florida
Mohawk Valley Community College
Queensborough Community College of
Lewis C. Popham
AUEC
New Orleans
Hi-Fever Follies to Aid Horton Memorial Hospital
Three Middletown women entertained at the Jaycee meeting for a Hi-Fever Follies benefiting Horton Memorial Hospital. The trio, identified from left as Mrs. Jerome Bernstein, Mrs. Raymond Stancher, and Mrs. Frederick Schoelkopf, performed for President Theodore Lewis and club members. The follies are scheduled for June.
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Middletown
Jaycee
Theodore Lewis
Jer
Ome Bernstein
Raymond Stancher
Frederick Schoelkopf
Horton Memorial Hospital
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H. Clark Bell
Kingston
Bernard Botein
New York City
Appellate Division
Charles S. Desmond
Convention
Anthony J. Travin
U. S
Chris Farlekas
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