COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM FOR THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

WHEREAS, since 1966 the AFT's More Effective Schools program for elementary schools has been the benchmark of quality integrated education and has been cited as an exemplary compensatory education program by the United States Office of Education; and

WHEREAS, the National Council for Effective Schools is engaged in broadening the design of MES to include the junior high/middle school, the senior high school and the community college; and

WHEREAS, a comprehensive program for the use of school revenues to achieve quality integrated education is especially needed in these "four more years" of economic retrenchment and social regression:

RESOLVED, that the National Council for Effective Schools implement a Comprehensive Program for the American School System (COMPAS); and

RESOLVED, that the designs developed by this Council refer to model schools as COMPAS schools; and

RESOLVED, that reactions and contributions to the COMPAS designs be sought from AFT members at the AFT Regional Conferences and QUEST Con­sortium 73; and

RESOLVED, that the COMPAS Council be instructed to complete its designs as soon as possible and no later than May 31, 1973; and

RESOLVED, that the COMPAS program be provided to all local, state and national AFT leaders and to those members who are responsible for advocating a particular use of school funds, such as legislative and bargaining committees; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT seek scholarly analysis of and organizational and political support for its Comprehensive Program for the American School System.