The principal had to make her case, not to some bureaucracy and not because she came up on a certain exam or a waiting list. We don't ask her to stay till 9 or 10 every night. But she had to see herself not only as a principal but as a community leader, as a community organizer, and, in part, as a social worker without the degree. The school dropout rate is the lowest in the city. But the interesting fact, too, is that in all four schools, the teacher attendance is the highest in the city.
Teachers feel safe.
Most social agencies, Coltoff said, must spend about 33 cents out of every dollar they raise on administration, insurance, upkeep of buildings, and so on. The rest is raised privately by the Society. Special grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund have enabled the Society to establish technical assistance centers for local school boards across the country. Calif. Children's Aid has proposed that the Boys and Girls Clubs of America use two of its schools as training sites for their regional and national staffs. Students in another project refurbished a subway station.