Education: Report Card

¶ Over the vehement opposition of the California Teachers Association, the Young Republicans, the Young Democrats, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L., the San Francisco Board of Education took highhanded revenge on teachers who opposed the reappointment of one board member last fall. By a vote of 5 to 1, the board passed a resolution forbidding any teacher to work for or against any candidate for any local office. Protested a C.T.A. official: "This is a basic issue with far more than local import. Now it's local candidates The next thing we know it could be extended to a campaign for the governorship. The next logical step would involve a presidential campaign." ¶ The Fund for the Advancement of Education added its own gloomy estimate of the teacher shortage: "The annual output of elementary and high-school teachers has dropped 26% since 1950, while enrollments in elementary and high schools have risen 24% and 10% respectively." ¶ Appointment of the week: Claude L. Reeves, 61, to succeed Alexander Stoddard as permanent superintendent of schools in Los Angeles. Popular and grandfatherly, Reeves got his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Southern California, joined the L.A. school system in 1921, rose to be assistant superintendent in charge of the city's 45 high schools. His chief problem: to provide 3,400 new classrooms to accommodate an anticipated 600,000 enrollment by 1960.