Washington. and Wisconsin. It was in northern projects that the phenomenon of predominantly Anglo professionals serving predominantly MexicanAmerican. Negro. or Puerto Rican migrant children was most striking. In many communities. "home folks first" had been institutionalized into a fixed employment policy. (This is the policy of offering employment to local teachers or professionals regardless of special training or abilities.) In only one did minority groups give evidence of being strong enough to even begin to protest this policy. In a New York State school district with large numbers of poor Negro and Puerto Rican children. not a single principal or teacher in nine schools of the district was Negro or Puerto Rican.