Student Advisory Board Okd, 6-1

The ejg&bïishment of a Student "Advisory Board of Eduation was officially approved by the Board of Education last night although one trustee voiced objections to the proposal and voted against it. Trustee Paul Carrington said, "I don't think this is a well conceived plan because the process is not designed to reflect the ideas and thinking of the Imajority of students." He also said the idea of shared power between junior and senior high school students was still not proportional. He said the election had been rigged, and "the plan for the board to be composed of half black and half white students Iseems ill-conceived." "I have to vote against it," he said. I Although six of the other trustees sentvoted in favor of the Student Advisory Board, Trustee Cecil Warner said he shared the feelings of Carrington but would vote "yes" because a great deal of time had been spent with a parent and citizen advisory committee and students should have the same opportunity. "But this is the last time 111 vote for any other type of advisory group to the board," Warner said. The student board, which will initiate its activities in the fall of 1971, is wholly an advisory body to the Board of Education. Duties for the student board include developing recommendations for the Board of Education, and advising them on such items as instruction programs, human relations, dsicipline policies and textbook selection. It would opérate under the procedures of hte Board of Education and would be responsible primarily to the student electors. Each senior high school would elect three members and each junior high would elect two. The election procedures for the senior highs state that white candidates sign up on one list and black candidates sign on another. White dents vote for white candidates and black students for black candidates on separate ballots. Through these procedures, which are the same as used for electing members to the bi-racial committees at the high schools, equal black and white representation is assured from each of the secondary schools, with the exception that an additional student will be elected I at-large from each of the two high I schools.