Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1997 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

SATURDAY, APRIL 19,1997

IPS

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To help determine where your child will be attending school next year, IPS adds that children will be assigned to the school according to their addresses. While school destination is based on address, it does not mean that students will necessarily be located in the school closest them. In exception, incoming juniors and seniors will be allowed to continue in the same schools until graduation. “Parents need to understand that this is not a neighborhood school program,” said Leonard. “Because neighborhoods in this city are so segregated, we had to apply to this system. With the boundary plan, we can create diversity." The need for the boundary plan, according to Leonard, also lies in the sporadic locating system the select schools operated under. Under the former plan, students from the same area were allowed to attend different schools. With this plan, student will go to whatever school is within the boundary lines. “Kids within an eight-block distance from each other were going to 2S to 30 different schools,” said Leonard. “Since everyone was going to different schools, there was no commonality between students. With this new plan, that is not the case.” As part of the new plan, students may be transported to schools miles away, but still in the feeder area, one of five areas connected to the five IPS high schools. Through this plan, students academic careers are better plotted out as early as elementary school. Parents will be notified of their children’s school assignments as early as May. Because these assignments will be distributed, parents need not reenroll even if their children are currently attending one of the closing schools. Students who qualify under special education requirements will also be relocated into their

appropriate location in conjunction with the plan. IPS also assured that all schools will

offer programs to cater to special education student’s needs. For African-American

students living in the desegregation areas, the court order has mandated that those students must attend their designated township school for the 1997-1998 school year. For parents concerned with busing situations under the new plan, IPS has made minor changes in transportation eligibility guidelines. For students in kindergarten to Sth grade, students must live at least a mile away from the institution to be transported. That distance increases one-quarter mile for middle school students and one-

half mile for high school students. Further, the current “A,” “B,” and “C” bus schedules

will be used next fall. If parents have any questions concerning bus stop assignments, call Transportation at 226-4500. Boundary school registration begins in August and can be done through the VAX computer system, a student registration program currently available. IPS ultimately hopes to keep student-teacher ratios well within

the guidelines set by the state, in fact, according to the plan, school buildings must meet the requirement of being anywhere between 71 to 100 percent full capacity wise. While IPS has developed a complex plan but one they feel doable, many parents remain skeptical with such a drastic alteration arriving so abruptly. “We’re encouraging patents and neighborhood groups to call us with their question and possibly schedule meetings with neighborhood organizations,” said Leonard.

For additional information, IPS has set up a boundary line information line, at 226-2222. Special numbers are also available upon request.

APOLOGY

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Health Service withheld treat-

ment from 399 men between

as an intake station for the study. The survivors are anxious to

1932 and 1972 to study how syphilis spread and how it killed. The Atlanta-based Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention supervised the study for the PHS from 1957 until it was discontin-

ued. The men were not told they ha^the disease and were not given penicillin, the standard treatment since 1947. The study, made public in a 1972 article by The Associated Press, forced changes in government research practices, but it also generated a mistrust of public health efforts among Black Americans that lingers to this day. U.S. officials never apologized for the grim research, which was the subject of a stage production and a recent HBO film, Miss Evers’ Boys. A classaction lawsuit was settled out of

receive an apology and a meeting with Clinton, said their attorney, Fred Gray. “In 1932, these men were taken advantage of by being used as human guinea pigs. Their lives were placed in jeopardy ... without their knowledge or consent,” Gray said. “They are now requesting that an appropriate apology be made.” Gray spoke before the White House announced its decision. White House aides were

working on a suitable way to issue the apology and on whether there should be further compensation, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

court, and the government has paid roughly $10 million to victims and their heirs since 1973.

“I lived through it, and I thank the Lord for it,” said Herman Shaw, 94, a farmer who joined the study in 1932 thinking it would give him access to up-to-date health care.

Shaw said an apology would be a great consolation. He also would like a monument in honor of the participants “so our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren could see what we went through.” There are eight survivingparticipants — the youngest is 87 yean old — and four of them meton April 8 at a church in Notasulga, Ala., that'once saved

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