1961 US Commission on Civil Rights Report Book 2 - University of ...

Notes: Education, Chapter 7—Continued
visory Committee confirmed the fact that the predominantly Negro
schools suffer by reason of the size of the school population and
size of the classes. Of 22 schools, each enrolling over 2,000 pupils
(the medium school size being 820.5), 18 are all or predominantly
Negro, and almost all of the 22 have double-shift classes. The
committee suggested that redistricting, construction of new schools
in appropriate locations or transport of students to less crowded
schools was needed to relieve this problem.
81. Id., The Crisis, 89.
82. Ibid.
83. Id. at 90.
84. Ibid. (Similar complaints, school board inaction to relieve overcrowding,
substandard teachers, transfers, etc., have been received
by the <strong>Commission</strong> from Newark, N.J.)
85. Ibid.
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