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Show Ird Starts Attack mm In Discrimination m jJMTON (CPS) The II foundation this week : off an attack on discrim-a discrim-a c against students and fac-t fac-t 1 3. colleges and univer-' univer-' ly announcing grants ' i e more than $2 million I (advantaged" students. -11 FOUNDATION officials fe grants most of them j higher education insti-ii insti-ii I Hie aimed at improving ' ::o opportunities for chil-' chil-' :' Negro and other dis-i:. dis-i:. families. i J -FORD Foundation grants - first of an expected :R if large foundations de-'., de-'., s improve educational -s on all levels. h- -i coordinator of the 'f is the American Coun-!ation Coun-!ation (ACE). Indiana :;:T?Pres. Elvis J. Stahr, si r Secretary of the h -atag the ACE's com-,; com-,; ! quality of educational cty. jKiittee has alreadv for graduate teaching degrees. It will also widen the scope of an intern plan for Negro high school teachers. The Southern Association of College sand Schools received $150,000 of the grant for ,an eight-state program to identify talented Negro and white elementary ele-mentary school children from deprived families and work with them through high school years with the aim of placing them in college. Promising, but poor, pupils from ten school systems will be selected in the program. Most of the grant will be used for the services of guidance personnel, many of them to be Peace Corps veterans. Atlanta University gets $125,-000 $125,-000 of the foundation grant to train 50 'Negro elementary school teachers as reading specialists a plan aimed at stepping up remedial reading programs throughout the south. i iroundwork for the .. representatives '!liFU,'!dati0n grant w, aid creation '"improvement . J Nashville. Tenn It - geared for the d n0r StUdents ligPTOgrams in stu- offer Neom s aimed parents t0 ::5?-pportuni" kiproblems Z Negr0- the Vh able f enter ;? of raoti. ,fito aid ' Suniversitv , ,COn" gr :erSt!'n will grtlMndidates |