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How about a program such as began in 1962 in

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Meadowbrook, Massachusetts. Would equal opportunity per-

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mit a building built for 1,000 student capacity to enroll

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150, in a new concept of education? Let the pupils choose

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the courses and the teachers -- would this be permitted

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under equal opportunity? It took four years, 1966, before

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the entire enrollment was permitted because by then, the

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pilot project had proven successful. The students were

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able to work out a program with the teachers, and this is

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regarded as one of the greatest innovations in education.

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Equal opportunity, I contend, would not have permitted

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one teacher to ten pupil ratio in a State that has a dif-

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ferent ratio entirely.

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It is true that we must judge by the end result,

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but unfortunately all of us do not come to the same

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end result. Given the same amount of time and the same

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teachers, we will not arrive at the same point.

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Baltimore City needs Federal funds, such as

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New York has achieved. Baltimore City needs Federal funds

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because it costs three to four times as much to teach a pupil

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in Baltimore City, who is culturally or socially or economi:-