Abstract

A Communication

After holding public hearings, the Virginia legislature recently passed a bill denying state funds to school boards which permit integration. According to the author, the deeply entrenched enemies of the public-school system have seized upon this highly emotional issue as a weapon for making war against public education in Virginia. The Government's plan is, in simple language, a brazen submission to these school boards of a choice between going to jail and going out of business. School boards can neither operate in perpetual defiance of supreme law without going to jail, nor they cannot operate in a perpetual state of financial strangulation without going out of business. Federal court orders eventually will embrace every school board in Virginia.