Education

League of Women Voters^®
of San Jose/Santa Clara

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Education Position Goals and Objectives. Education Position Racial Balance in Education.

Education Position Goals and Objectives

Support public education and child development goals.
Objectives (in rank order, with #1 and #2 being equal)
1. The child should develop academic competency and acquire basic skills to maximum potential.
A. Develop skills of critical thinking.
B. Maintain and utilize eagerness to learn throughout life.
C. Exhibit the abilities of flexible, creative thinking.

2. The child should develop a sense of self-worth, self-discipline and understanding of health and psychological needs.
3. The child should be qualified for economic independence. The oppotunity for vocational training should be available.
A. Be aware of all opportunities open to him or her for a productive life.
B. Be responsive to a world of rapid change and resulting changes in vocational demands.

4. The child should be able to participate effectively in institutions of organized society such as work, school and family.
5. The child should develop attitudes of good citizenship, a sense of the rights and responsibilities of good citizenship and the abilities of effective citizenship.
6. The child should develop high moral and ethical standards.
Adopted:1970

Education Position Racial Balance in Education

Support those well-designed programs to alleviate racial imbalance in the public schools which result in the integrated, quality education necessary for all children.
Those programs should substantially meet the following standards:
1. Broadly representative community participation in the planning and implementation processes.
2. Employment, whenever possible, of state and/or federal technical assistance.
3. Comprehensive in-service staff training.
4. Least expensive and shortest transportation of students necessary to accomplish physically integrated schools.
5. Adequate financing for quality, integrated education.
6. Continuing efforts to achieve social and attitudinal as well as physical integration of children.
7. Provisions for participation by all students in extra curricular activities.
8. Top priority on inclusion of the youngest children.
Integration of schools may provide a short-range solution of the racial crisis. The long-range solutions lie in the economic and social integration of housing.
Adopted: 1969; Updated: 1979

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