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Policy on Integration Under Fire SWITCH from Page 5 school if its raining. But hes going to find a reason to take two buses, a subway and a ferry in February? said Paula Davis, whose 13-year-old son Jonathan has been assigned to New Dorp High School. Added Aileen Snider, co-president of the JHS 62 Parents Association, Youre asking for 141 dropouts and potential dropouts. Is that what the Board of Education wants? Wagner said yesterday that the Board of Education will at its meeting next week whether to amend the high school integration plan to allow schools with a 45-percent white majority to accept minority students. That would enable seven Brooklyn schools and seven Queens schools to accept students from Erasmus and Jack-son and would eliminate this years Staten Island overflow.

Of the citys 945,000 students, roughly 79 percent are minority pupils. schools two years ago. There are 32 academic high schools in Brooklyn and 25 in Queens. While these schools Grover Cleveland and Townsend Harris in Queens, and New Utrecht in Brooklyn are accepting some minority students for the upcoming school year, they do not have room for all the students who have applied. As a result, the Board of Education decided to assign the 351 additional students to majority-white schools on Staten Island.

Each of the seven Staten Island high schools is at least 56 percent white. Frankly, it seems like a bad joke, Norma Rollins, executive director of Advocates for Children, said yesterday. The students still could attend Jack-son and Erasmus. In the 1986-87 school year, seven Brooklyn schools and seven Queens schools had more than a 50-percent enrollment of whites, and all 14 accepted minority students from Eras mus and Jackson. Of those zoned to attend Jackson, 209 freshmen were allowed to transfer to other Queens schools, and 260 freshmen zoned to Erasmus found spots elsewhere in Brooklyn.

In the 1987-88 school year, only 180 Bpots were available for minority students in Queens and only 102 spots in Brooklyn, according to board figures. Its just gotten tighter and tighter, and its probably going to get worse, said Joseph Elias, director of the boards Office of Zoning and Integration. At JHS 62, where 141 eighth-graders learned this week that theyd been assigned to Staten Island high schools, parents said yesterday they are furious, in large measure because they fear the long trip to Staten Island will be an incentive to skip school or drop out. My son wont go to school if theres a hole in his sneakers. He wont go to High School in Cambria Heights, Queens, which also has a four-year dropout rate of nearly 50 percent Jack-son enrolls only one white student among its 2,460 pupils.

Many of the students say they dont want to go to schools with such high dropout rates. Under an 11-year-old integration plan, the only way for the minority students to transfer out of these neighborhood high schools is to be accepted to a school that has at least a 50-percent white enrollment. But, as the white population in the citys high schools has declined, the number of schools with a majority of white students also has declined precipitously. This school year, only one high school in Brooklyn and two high schools in Queens have more whites than minority students, a drop from 15 2 Teachers Injured in Assaults in Queens Bronx DA Hopeful Says He Was Spied On BRONX from Page 5 McGillion said that Capt. Joseph Nekola, the commander of the district attorneys office squad, had been questioned by Colangelo and denied that Foglia was being followed liy his men.

Nekola explained that his men had been observing a loansharking operation near Foglias office, according to Nekola could not be reached for comment yesterday. The two had joined the squad only a few months before. They were assigned to follow me but they didnt know why, said Foglia, who said he received the information from a friend who is, like Foglia, a former Bronx assistant district attorney. Alice T. McGillion, the Police Departments deputy commissioner for public information, said Foglias charges would be pursued.

lowing Foglia. The former squad member said the surveillance was called off about a month ago. Yesterday, Foglia said he believed the surveillance had ended about that time, after two detectives he claimed wese assigned to investigate him began asking questions of their supervising officers. Jackson Pressing for VP Offer JACKSON from Page 7 ASSAULT from Page 5 in Queens and released. A 14-year-old was charged as a juvenile with third-degree assault in the case.

In another incident, at 3:25 p.m., two police officers on anticrime patrol at George W. Wingate High School in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn arrested a 17-year-old student who had a Titan automatic pistol tucked into his belt, officials said. The teenager, Desmond Edwards, of 115 Rogers Brooklyn, was charged with criminal trespass and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. Its these kinds of incidents that are the typical, grinding kind of daily abuse that the faculty members at throe public schools face everyday, said Neill Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the United Federation of Teachers. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is not unusual.

Schools Chancellor Richard Green, as well as the UFT, favor the mandatory expulsions of violent students. The real lesson that needs to be taught is that school is a place for education, not violence, Rosenfeld said, Put of that is taking responsibility for your actions. We have to crack down. Last week, city and teachers union nffinnh, including Police Commissioner Beqjamin Ward, Mayor Edward I. Koch, UFT President Sandra Feldman and Green, met to discuss methods of reducing teacher assaults, which average two per day.

Options include increased police patrols around schools deemed dangerous, increased security guards within the schools walls and metal detectors at the doors. Gene Jabouin, whose brother is in this first year teaching in the New York City schools, said he did not know what precipitated the attack on his brother. for the next 40 days and insisting that his two strategies pursuing more delegates and lobbying to be asked to join the ticket are not at odds. would be consulted, as well as Jackson. While Dukakis was picking up endorsements from ex-contenders Rep.

Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois, Jackson was outlining a 10-point action agenda One close Jackson friend and adviser said the candidate privately has not indicated a desire for the job mid that many people around him do not want him to Reagan Attacks Dukakis Camp take it if it is offered. But the adviser believed the overtures will translate ultimately into negotiating chips. If, for example, Dukakis does not offer the post to Jackson, this adviser said, the governor might be pressed to show in significant ways such as through promises of high-level campaign and administration jobs, through important policy commitments, through Jackson's involvement in the selection of the running mate that Jackson had exerted visible influence through the presidential nominating process. This maneuvering already is putting the Dukakis campaign in a position of striking a hard line with a man whose support could be critical to victory.

Dukakis said he did not know whether he will make a decision before the Democrats convention in July. Jackson, at his press conference, said he will continue to meet with Dukakis as the weeks go on. Myron S. Waldman contributed to this story. president.

You know, if you listen to him long enough, I would be convinced that were in an economic downturn and that people are homeless and people are going without food and medical attention and that weve got to do something about the unemployed, Reagan said. Dukakis, en route home to Massachusetts, issued a reply: Yes, Mr. President, good jobs and affordable housing and health insurance for working people are what the American dream is all about The Washington Post Washington President Ronald Reagan plunged into the coming presidential campaign yesterday, accusing Democrat Michael Dukakis of spreading untruths about his administration and promising to vigorously defend George Bush who has been a part of everything weve accomplished in this administration. Specifically the president accused Dukakisof attempting to distort the condition of the nations economy and ignoring Reagans accomplishments as NEWSDAY. THURSDAY.

JUNE 9. 1968 The $350M Plan to Save the Williamsburg ro tn corroded approaches, including widening the 9-foot-wide traffic lanes to 11 feet and using stronger underpinnings to make maintenance and inspection easier. The cost of this and the other planned improvements announced yesterday: $350 million. Try to look on the bright side," a city official who asked not to be identified said after Kochs news conference. At least we didnt throw away $250 million.

that wraps the cables, and the suspenders themselves could be salvaged. However, the inspectors found 400 seriously corroded areas, most of them on the bridge approaches, that had to be repaired immediately. The cost of the emergency repairs: $10 million. Last week the Williamsburg Bridge Task Force concluded that the most cost-efficient way of rendering the bridge safe for the next 100 years would be to rewrap the cables and replace its BRIDGE from Page 7 The cost of that work: $6 million. Then, in 1986, the Federal Highway Administration, which would firnd 80 percent of the project, said it would make more sense to build an entirely new bridge, and held up the repair money.

Last year Sandler and the states regional transportation director, Foster J. Beach III, appointed a 10-member Williamsburg Bridge Task Force to re port on the costs and benefits of replacement vs. renovation. The cost of that study: $2 million. But then painters discovered holes in the Williamsburg Bridges support beams and girders because of corrosion.

Hie state hired Steinman Boynton to do the first in-depth review ever made of tiie structure. The cost of the inspection: $4.5 million. Their conclusions: Most of the corrosion was limited to the galvanized steel.