Wilson C. Riles: ""No Adversary Situations"": Public School Education in California and Wilson C. Riles, Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1970-1982
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Bancroft Library. Oral History Center Sharp, Sarah L Riles, Wilson C
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Passage of 1965 federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act; racial discrimination in teacher employment; Early Childhood Education programs, compensatory education, equalization of public school finance, racial desegregation within the schools; experiences with previous superintendent Max Rafferty; Reagan as governor, the state legislature, the California Supreme Court; local superintendents and parents' groups, and the NAACP.
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