Jo Ann.
Ford one of the parent involvement coordinators applauded.
the program for offering such small districts a way to.
interact with parents within that society. "I have parents.
who would never cross the threshold of a school who are.
helping now. They are doing everything from stuffing.
envelopes to tending the school garden. Larger districts,.
including those in Boston, and East Orange, N.J., have also.
signed up for Project Appleseed(Franck, 3). Project.
Appleseed in St. Louis wants to start to target the 40.
schools that are targeted for school improvement by the.
desegregation settlement. Mayor Francis Slay stated that.
the city of St. Louis needs a lump sum of half a million.
dollars for the private effort. He has raised only $28,000.
which is far short of his goal. Because of the sluggish.
economy after September 11th monetary contributions have.
suffered. .
These such reform efforts that were stated in the St.
Louis Post Dispatch article also relate to the book of.
Jonathan Kozols' "Savage Inequalities". In the passage from.
the book regarding East St. Louis the author describes how.
there lives in East St. Louis are very much poverty.
stricken. The history of East St. Louis at the turn of the.
century was one of the largest railroad centers in the.
United States. It also led the nation in sales of horses,.
mules, and hogs and in the manufacture of aluminum. Blacks.
were then drawn to East St. Louis from the south by promises.
of jobs. When the blacks arrived they were hired as mainly.
strikebreakers. The city underwent a renaissance of sorts.
during World War II when the factory space was used for.
military manufacturing. This was a time when prostitution.
flourished throughout the city because of the presence of so.
many military men. For a couple of decades East St. Louis.
was known as a place where a young white male could go for.
sexual adventures. .
"In the same week schools had announced that they would.
layoff 280 teachers, 166 cooks and cafeteria workers, 25.
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