Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST YEAR and a half has not been a happy time for advocates of community control of ghetto schools. They have fought the school establishment in skirmishes and battles across the country, and their enemy has proved wiley and stubborn...
There have been gains of course. Even Boston's petrified school administration has cracked at the extremities and yielded up a few experiments in community involvement (not control): most notable is the King-Timilty decentralized district, in which a Parent Council advises the school system on the operation of two Roxbury junior highs. Repeated confrontations have radicalized increasing numbers of the ghetto's sleeping residents, with black students themselves among the most militant and least controllable...
During the next half hour, debate raged heavy, Kazin several times almost lost control of the microphone as would-be speakers--most of whom appeared to be supporting the Worker-Student Alliance position--grabbed for it. In front of the platform, several people chanted...
Dean Ford then tried to clarify some of the things the Faculty could do by itself while Glimp's committee was working on new contracts. The Faculty has complete control over the courses listed in its catalogue, Ford said, adding that some separate listing for ROTC programs might be possible for next Fall...
...modern industrial country, taxes-and the desire to elude them-exert an increasing control over the affairs of individuals, institutions and corporations. They influence a person in how he chooses to invest his savings (municipal bonds, cattle ranches and oil wells are among the most favorable for tax purposes). They determine many a young couple's choice of a wedding date (better at the end of one year than the beginning of the next one). They affect a family's choice of where to live and whether to rent or buy a home. Any high-salaried executive forfeits...