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What Classroom Shortage?

Possibly the present Congress will not weigh us down with some grand scheme of subsidies for school-building. I hope it does not; but if we escape, it will be despite the intense efforts of the educationist lobby. The National Education Association has lost one powerful former ally—President Eisenhower. As late as last year, Mr. Eisenhower thought that there ought to be some federal spending for school construction; but, convinced by certain prudent advisers— who were fortified by Mr. Roger Freeman’s School Needs in the Decade Ahead—the President has set his face against such a program.

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What Classroom Shortage?

Possibly the present Congress will not weigh us down with some grand scheme of subsidies for school-building. I hope it does not; but if we escape, it will be despite the intense efforts of the educationist lobby. The National Education Association has lost one powerful former ally—President Eisenhower. As late as last year, Mr. Eisenhower thought that there ought to be some federal spending for school construction; but, convinced by certain prudent advisers— who were fortified by Mr. Roger Freeman’s School Needs in the Decade Ahead—the President has set his face against such a program.