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Lawrence D. Shubow '44, the chief counsel to the Indians, cites Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' 1976 executive order declaring the Wamponoag a tribe, and Richard McCann, HEW regional commissioner of the Office of Education in Boston, offers another example. He reports that the Wamponoags of Mashpee have not been rejected in their application for federal aid under part B of the Indian Education Act of 1972, which stipulates tribal status as a prerequisite for accepting applications, and that the Wamponoags have already received aid under part A of the act, which offers an entitlement program based on the number...
...audit of the School of Public Health (SPH) by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) revealed the improper allocation of federal research funds to cover the salaries of employees in three SPH departments, a recently obtained internal SPH faculty memo shows...
Most of the Government, however, remains impervious to presidential commands. After all, Presidents come and go; the civil service endures. One of the most durable bureaucracies is HEW, with its $53 billion budget. A centralizer of the old school, Secretary Joseph Califano reversed the decentralization undertaken by the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The ten regional directors were shorn of their independence, which was returned to Washington for safekeeping despite Carter's promise to restore "Government to the people." HEW argues that its 370 programs need to be run from headquarters for the sake of consistency; divergent decisions, the department feels...
Zealotry seems to be on the increase at HEW. Over the years, no city has surpassed New York in helping the poor and integrating minorities. Nevertheless, the city was cited by HEW'S Office for Civil Rights for permitting a racial imbalance of teachers. Last September, the agency demanded a reapportionment so that each school district would have the same percentage of minority teachers as the system as a whole. The school board was compelled to separate 3,500 teachers into two lines, one for whites, the other for blacks and Hispanics. Then they drew their new assignments...
Centralization also leads to slowdowns and foulups. Three times in the past 18 months, the University of Alabama in Birmingham has sent copies of its affirmative action plan to HEW'S Office for Civil Rights. Three times the office has lost it. Says University Vice President Robert Glaze: "You're talking about a document roughly the size of the Manhattan telephone book." When the plan was finally found, the civil rights office declared regulations had changed, and the plan must be resubmitted?at considerable cost to the university...