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was this, a committee or a commission? A study group?

There were a few of us who were working with the lawyers in terms of an impending case, to increase the effectiveness of education in the Richmond public schools, given the fact that a federal court said that they could not integrate across city lines. They had lost the case, so they were trying to-- like the one in St. Louis, trying to desegregate. Because the majority of the children in the Richmond public schools are black, and they were trying to deal with the resegregation problem by involving the surrounding counties. But they lost that case.

This, of course, could be changed by legislation, could it not?

Yes, but what are the chances of that?

Does this also not show, as cities expand and satellite suburbs develop, the artificiality of local governmental jurisdictional lines?

And the uneconomic basis of it. I believe that the most economic way of dealing with the cost of public schools is to have educational parks.

Something analogous to industrial parks?

That's right. I really believe that, because you look at our