Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using a 4-2-4 offense for the first time this year, Harvard deployed inside Jaime Vargas and center halfback Richie Hardy as the "link" men between the defense and the forward line. Vargas and Hardy helped the Crimson gain control of the mid-field play, while greatly improving the quickness and coordination of the passing...
...McCoy avoided making a public issue of the transfer. But McCoy wanted more than the removal of the ten instructors. Seeking a public confrontation over the community's right to hire and fire, McCoy publicly accused the teachers of incompetence and of sabotaging the district's experiment in community control. The union demanded a hearing and the issue was joined...
...union, the conflict at Ocean Hill is above all a struggle for survival. The union's strength, built up painfully over the years, lies in its ability to bargain for all the City's teachers. Thus community control strikes directly at the union's source of strength. By insisting on the right of indivdual community boards to negotiate contracts with teachers, the new system would shatter the union into locals whose leverage on wage levels and teaching conditions would be minimal...
Teachers also fear, and with some justification, that in some areas community control really means black control. Alarmed by anti-Semitic remarks from some ghetto leaders, the largely Jewish union fears capricious harrassment and dismissal by local boards which are more concerned with race than competence...
...teachers have thoroughly alienated both the ghettoes and the upper middle class of New York, both of whom favor decentralization. The controversy may have slowed the tide of decentralization by scaring the legislature into delaying consideration of a general plan for decentralization. But few admit the movement toward community control, now affecting almost every U.S. city, can be permanently stopped--without destroying the system entirely...