Education

The Education Committee:

  • seeks to eliminate segregation and other discriminatory practices in public education;

  • studies local educational conditions affecting minority groups;

  • investigates the public school system and school zoning;

  • familiarizes itself with textbook material there from which is racially derogatory;

  • seeks to stimulate school attendance;

  • keeps informed of school conditions and strive to correct abuses where found;

  • investigates the effects of standardized and high stakes testing practices;

  • reviews teacher certification;

  • promotes parental involvement in education; and

  • aims to be a center of popular education on the race question and on the work of the Association.