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of schools in the District needed improvement—even in those localities where minority employment goals had been reached. The Caucus, he said, was seeking help from the State Legislature for funding to establish a pilot program in the Seventh District aimed at strengthening guidance systems.

The program, White continued, would attempt to identify student aptitudes by the seventh grade so the student could be directed towards a proper course of study. Too many students discovered in eleventh or twelfth grade that they lacked the necessary preparation for acceptance in either college, trade school or business, he said.

Acknowledging that poor housing and a limited social atmosphere hindered recruitment of young teachers in many of the District’s jurisdictions, White

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