Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...gained seems scarcely worth the cost. Where they've been won, experimental projects have never granted ghetto communities the hire and fire power they want, and few if any of the pilot "community schools" have hit public systems where they are most sensitive: in the purse. Boston's experimental district, like the three demonstration districts in New York City, has been funded by outside money, in this case a federal grant. The Office of Education offered Boston 1.5 million dollars over three years if it would give up some of its control to the parent advisory council which wrote...
...arrested students were taken in police paddy wagons and buses directly to district courts in Cambridge...
Sophomore Dale Dover was the only Harvard representative as yet another post-season all-star basketball team was named last week. Dover was on the District I third team selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches...
Harvard's Chris Gallagher, who was honorable mention in both the Ivy League and the Associated Press All-New England selections, was not chosen for the District I all-stars...