Evening star., 1947-12-15
Segregation Hit
In School Report
oPresident
Education inferior
For Negroes Here,
Zook Survey Says
PARENTS ACCOMPANY PUPILS
to Browne in school protest.
Page B-f
By Colt Hendley, Jr.

The Districts segregated pub
lie school system was denounced
today in a report issued by Pres
ident Truman's Commission on
Higher Education.
Despite laws guaranteeing equal
advantages, inferior education Is
given to colored persons not only
in the District but in II States
where segregation Is practiced. the
report by the 28-member body de-
clared.
Colleges and universities were
criticized for the quota system" for
admission by which many insti-
tutions of higher education deny
learning to certain minorities, par.
ticularly to Negroes and Jews"
Mr.. Truman released the 103-
page document with a statement
urging that all citizens examine
it carefully"
The District public school system
was cited specifically as proof that
although segregation may not
legally mean discrimination as to
the quality of the facilities, 1t
usually does SO in fact"
Consistent Ratio Asserted.
"These facts are supported strong
ly by recent study in the District
of Columbia" the commission
stated The Districts superinten-
dent of schools in his 1867 report
to the Board of Education states
that the student-teacher ratios in
the schools for Negroes were sig
nif1cantly and consistently higher
than those for neutrality-suspicious.
the kindergartens through the
teachers colleges"
The commission, which was
headed by DR.. George F. Zook.
president of the American Council
on Education, made these specific
recommendations:
That Federal financial help to
double college enrollments by 1860
be undertaken. I
That segregation and quota sys-
TENS" in education be abolished.
That free public education, such
as now available through high
school, be extended through the
first two years of college.
/ That tuition fees for the last two
years Of college be lowered.
That professional school educaa
ton be revised to turn out we'll.
rounded persons instead Of only re-
search specialists and technicians
That hundreds of community col>
1eges, similar to junior colleges, ba
established throughout the Nation.
That colleges and universities ex-
pand to include adult education.
That sweeping curriculum changes
be made in higher education.
i Appropriations Plea Recalled.
In commenting on the District
aspects of the report today, Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of
the Board of Education. recalled
that the study of the local situation
referred to by the commission was
presented by School Supt. Hobart
M. Corning as part of the effort to
get appropriations for new school
buildings for the District.
The board and school officials
have attempted to get new build
ings to eliminate overcrowding in
the schools here, she pointed out.
The rapid rise in the colored school
population during the last few years
plus the shifting of the colored pop
ulation to new areas of the city.
have forced overcrowding in some
of the schools and mainly in tls
colored schools, she stated. The
same situation existed after World
War I in the white schools, she
added.
/ The reports emphasis on the
racial question declared that be-
cause of the quota system" and
segregation, the United States not
only faces shortages of doctors,
teachers and others, but stands in
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