The Cost of Segregated Public Schools in the District of Columbia

The end of separate business education for Negro high school students and the ghettoing of Negro high school education would result if recommendations from a survey of schoolhousing in Washington were put into effect. In 1949 the Appropriations Act for the District of Columbia provided for a survey of the public schools of Washington, D. C.' Dr. George Strayer, Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, heads the survey, which may have resulted from the clamor of District citizens for adequate education for their children, or may have been a Congressional reaction to several law suits filed by Negroes against the Board of Education in 1947 and 1948 with the general end of equal educational opportunity in the District, or may have resulted from the requests of numerous organizations before the Senate Appropriations Committee for an investigation of District schools. The first part of Strayer's report, released by the Senate Appropriations Commitee in December 1948, is Schoolhousing in the District of Columbia.2 Among the recommendations are the abandoning of Cardozo High

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  Open Access•Ludivine Gilli•Transatlantica•2024

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