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ASMAL TO INTERVENE IN MALUTI SCHOOL BOYCOTT.
Education Minister Kader Asmal will visit Maluti in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday to investigate reports of a boycott of classes due to lack of delivery of textbooks and stationery to schools in the area, his spokesman Molatwane Likhethe said on Wednesday. "The minister wants to ensure that all the necessary steps are taken to create the conditions for effective teaching and learning," Likhethe said in a statement. Asmal was extremely concerned about the reports given the government's commitment to ensuring the delivery of textbooks and stationery prior to the opening of schools. However, he believed boycotts would not resolve the matter and would further compromise the education of ...
- BLACKS IN MISS. AGREE TO END SCHOOL BOYCOTT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press March 15, 1987 700+ words
...A black group voted last night to end a month-long school boycott after the school board and black leaders reached a tentative...2 hours as the group debated the merits of settling the school boycott, which began Feb. 17. Rev. Cathey, who had predicted...
- `Hazard' spurs school boycott
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Roger Flaherty December 16, 1986 700+ words
...transfer from the Phyllis Wheatley Child-Parent Center because of possible health hazards there prompted a highly effective school boycott yesterday. Board spokesman Robert Saigh said only 37 of the 370 children enrolled in the pre-school program attended...
- BRITAIN-RELIGION: MUSLIM SCHOOL BOYCOTT RAISES TOLERANCE DEBATE
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Darius Bazargan January 24, 1996 700+ words
...expect further action in the next few weeks with at least another 5,000 children being withdrawn." He added that the school boycott was likely to spread to other regions of the country with significant Muslim populations because of the universal nature...
- Blacks Vote to End School Boycott
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 15, 1987 700+ words
...enacted, said the Rev. Michael Cathey, a spokesman for the group. The hiring of a white assistant superintendent sparked the school boycott Feb. 17. Blacks said the school board reneged on its promise to hire a black. @Slug: A19NA2
- S. Africa blacks will not resume school boycott
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times March 31, 1986 700+ words
...JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A conference of black teachers, parents and students decided yesterday not to resume a school boycott this week. They resolved, instead, to set their own curriculum and use classrooms to mobilize anti-apartheid campaigning...
- School Boycott Not the Answer
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times EDITORIALS February 11, 1996 700+ words
With a truancy rate of about 8 percent, schools in East Chicago, Ind., know what it's like to not have kids in the classroom. The Twin City Ministerial Alliance of East Chicago added to the problem in a misguided effort to protest alleged acts of racism in those classrooms. The alliance urged
- 300 jam makeshift school // Boycott begun in protest over 250 demotions
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lillian Williams February 24, 1988 700+ words
A South Side alternative school did a bustling business Tuesday as some 300 students packed makeshift classrooms to protest their demotions at the Beethoven Elementary School. A few yards away at the regular school, principal Grace G. Dawson extended an olive branch to pupils and their parents,
- Impact hardly felt from school boycott: Gay-bias ban angers Hispanic...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Ferrechio, Susan March 30, 1996 700+ words
Montgomery County school officials said they saw little evidence yesterday of a planned boycott by parents who oppose a new policy banning discrimination against homosexuals. About 14 percent of the school system's 120,000 students were absent yesterday, about 3 percent higher than average. School
