OVERVIEW

This report contains five main sections. In the first section, the plan for quality desegregated education is described.

This description entails

two parts: (1) those recommendations which are to be put into effect by September of 1970; and (2) those recommendations which are to be implemented between 1971 and 1974. The second section explains what the plan is designed to achieve: educational excellence, racial balance, equity, stability, and economy. The third section explains how students will be assigned to schools in the recommended plan and gives an estimate of the percentage and number of pupils to be bused. In the fourth section, recommendations are made concerning the steps that the District should take to prepare for the implementation of the plan. The fifth section contains a map which graphically outlines the plan for quality desegregated education.

SECTION I

THE PLAN

The following two-part plan is recommended for the Harrisburg City School District. The first part is to be put into effect by September of 1970.

The second part is to be implemented between 1971 and 1974.

Part One

pre-kindergarten

1. Two Early Childhood Centers, to include four grades through second grade. One Center will use Riverside, Camp Curtin and Cameron; the other will use Foose, Shimmell and Lincoln.

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Eight elementary schools, generally clustered together, to include children in grades three through six. These schools are Marshall, Downey, Steele, Hamilton, Melrose, Boas, Woodward, and Benjamin

Franklin.

One intermediate school for grades seven and eight at Webster and

Edison.

Two comprehensive four-year high schools at William Penn and

John Harris.

5. Provision for special education at Hamilton, Cameron, Benjamin Franklin, Boas, Downey, and Melrose, and for emotionally disturbed and brain damaged children at St. Paul's Church; William Penn and John Harris for secondary students,

Part Two

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Construction of a unified Educational Plaza for grades six through

eight by 1974.

Utilization of the Edison plant as an elementary school by 1974, and the elimination of Webster and Hamilton plants.

Creation of science focus in William Penn high school program and a liberal arts and humanities focus in John Harris, both by 1971. Development of a further educational sequence between William Penn High School and the Harrisburg Community College by 1974. Twelfth graders at William Penn can take some courses at the College, perhaps for advanced placement credit.