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Show ENTRAL VOLUME 1.2, NO« 1 Poor Bd. Meet of Education "You can't buy an une derstanding of poverty," Fred Civish said - at: one point in tween posal the meeting the Title Committee Central City I. of be-= Prothe Neighborhood Council and members of the Salt Lake City Board of Education. The purpose of the meeting, held at the Central City Action Center on Friday, “October 27th, - was to discuss. the reasons why the Board of Education had not onthe Title I. recommendations changes in acted Committee for some the current 1s:.a Feg@eralt proposal. Titie' I, granioOf.. dbo ode JOO... ven to the Salt Lake City JONOUL Diste eeu “ron ene purpose of promoting better educational opportunities for elementary and secondary school children from low-income families. The Board wants to of use Education this money to reduce class size, and where this is not poss- ible, Aides to hire to assist Teacher the regu- . lar teachers. They proposed that these Aides be University students who are majoring in Elementary Education. Some other plans were itional Social provide Art, and T.V. and visits to hire to by add- Workers, programs in increase Social teachers to home Workers get par- ents involved in the life of the child at school. The Title I. Committee found with and some drew commended up of a Proposal faults these list changes, plans of ‘submitted them to the Board of Education. The most .important ._ of these recommendations was that Teacher Aides be hired from not this community, only sity. from the Itiwas.. ested that and Univer- also sugg- Social Worker Aides be hired from this community to work under the ed supervision Social felt’ of train- Workers. “thatthe It was plans Art by T.V. was money which could for wasting be more effectively used to im-= prove necessary things as reading and math skills. At after Friday's a summary situation, meeting, of this Chairman. Rena the dis- Mitchell started cussion of using people from the neighborhood as Teacher Aides. She said this had been done successfully by Project Head Start. Bettye Benns, CoChairman, “spoke” "of: ther very own experience as an Aide in Head Start, and her own for and a_ my good kids. family @F every ten one of us finished High School. This was in the South. We weren't interested in going to college, and just couldn’ afford it. Ail 4 know is how to work with kids. I just feel. tike I'm able to work as of the Teacher Aides, I've done it, andtI good. at one and was which ammendments owing next is going to make it serving and operating, keep to ram pro- Action City Central the for impossible to the Carntrai: City. ammendment The first Community Actsays that ion agencies must make 4 share of matchof their The in Cash. funds ing second ammendment says that all agencies Community Action will lose their local independence as we knOw-ite.. Sbabe ..0r..tocal governments must be the official agencies through which anti-poverty funds they have the power to set up a new agency, propose a program, and have the new agency recognized as legitimate. The third ammendment says that 0O.E.O. funded agencies will owed to use money LON. in Voter The ic Office Opportunity it," Conw de pe 4 House mittee has voted to cut this amount by $400 millLOM. 422 This Cut 26 pass— ed and made retroactive to Just, tae. Orrice of EcCancmic ~Cpportunity would have to do the fol- pings... the ros not be all- workers or Registratof is Econom— Curreri- ona 31.6 budget.The Appropriations close 60. 123 existing Centers and of Job Codismiss 20,000 enrollees. 2) Cut Neighborhood ‘Youth Centers by 3)., Drop community From er operating tly billion dollar re- then gram. ittee pro- Comm— foli- But the House tacked on the ected ‘city eftteials Gontt like our now-existing Co-= mmunity Action agencies, I want froma anti-poverty the for Welfare," she “i have: «tour education t*m just has ic Opportunity this for refunded been ana the next fiscal yeare The appropriation was ap.*biliion $2 proximately willbe... distributed. .Iif the Mayor and other ele- about children. myself, Econom- of Office The the feeling situation. "T'm on SSiG, **tand* GENTRAL GITY ACTION IN DANGER 250,000 enrollees. “120;OGG. wemlts joo training. 4)Drop 92,000 children from year round Head Start classes. 5S) eeeeort.. 300,000 poor persons from legal serv- ices. 6) Brea sall Summer Programs scheduied the year. coming 7) for Gen- erally cut C.A.P. programs by. <40%e. THIS LAST COULD MEAN CENTRAL CITY! Duking the week of November 7th, the debate on the floor of the House will probably begin on the O.E.0. bill. THIS DE= BATE IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT BECAUSE . THE DIRECT-— TON. OF THE. WHOLE EFFORT: DEPENDS. COMES. OUT... OF VOTE. The O.E.O. then go to a POVERTY ON - WHAT ..THE..HOUSE bill wild Conference House and Committee of ,,. tives senta Repre Senate com= a out who will work the of version promise bill. see page 2 Com= PAGE ONE |