GREAT SOCIETY CAN AFFORD IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700410021-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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DR. NEIL V. SULLIVAN, the Berkeley school
superintendent, is bitterly critical of the Johnson
Administration. for signaling a cutback on. the
'Great. Society's" commitment of funds for com- .,
pensatory eduction. Compensatory education is a
special - effort, -booster - shot kind of program de-
k signed for, academically behindhand children from
( low-income neighborhoods. .
Sullivan observed that it's obvious the John-
;son Administration has made a decision: "We
'aren't changing our commitments we made in Viet-
nam, and we are changing the commitments we've .'#
made to children through education."
He. said he'd been advised that next year's
presidential budget will yield only about 85 per
~1'11`:cent of the amount authorized for the current
;': tichool year's compensatory program. This cutback
will cost-Berkeley's schools $75,000 and San Fran
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s $525,000. Sullivan recalls that last summer,-
-ia~hen the White House conference on education.',,
was reaping attention the President personally en-
couraged educators to hope for an increase in
funds for compensatory education.
IT HAS LATELY BECOME obvious that Pres-'
ident Johnson is drawing in his horns on Great So
ciety programs while he scratches for more for
r, Vietnam. And while we have no quarrel with his 'A
;warning last Friday-against trying to go "too far, {
. t:oo fast" on these programs.or with his advice that . t.
uaintaining "equilibrium" is- important, still a 15.
per, cent reduction on funds for the grade-school,
training of the,,least'advanced urban Negro young-
sters is not maintaining equilibrium; it is not going
too tar too fast, it is going,backward. And that is
Somehow the Johnson Administration should 1
i'in the money to keep well thought out, well..
,',shit't'ed projects like compensatory education going
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