Box 3, Folder 17, Document 56

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— Council Makes Recommendation On Schools

This was the scene at West Hunter Street Baptist Church Monday evening at a meeting of the
Education Sub-Committee, Citizens Central Advisory Council of EOA, Public School Deputy Super-
intendent Dr. Hilliard A, Bowen thumbs througha list of recomméndations the Council made to the
Board of Education.

Among the 12 recommendations were that the Board establish a central information center to
which all agencies with disadvantaged clients may reportneedy families eligible for free lunches

.for their children, that the Board make ‘‘a concrete response on the implementation of the Me-
chanicsville absenteeism proposal, that provisions be made for another school to relieve Hern-
don, that portable units at Bryant and Herndon be removed, that ROTC be an elective course, that
techniques of teaching in low income schools be revamped and that the Board issue a statement
on the sources of money spent on the public schools and where the money goes, (Photo by S, C.
GORDON). | :

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