Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor quickly let it be known that change would continue-with a difference. All the renewal projects started by Collins would be completed, but the emphasis in future would be shifted from big downtown building schemes to less visible, but no less important, housing and neighborhood-improvement programs. As proof of his efforts, he announced this month that he had persuaded Boston banks, insurance companies and industries to invest $56 million in depressed neighborhoods. Some $50 million will be in loans to finance rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units, while the remaining $6,000,000 will be seed...
...able civil engineer -was put in charge of the Model Cities program; a welfare mother was named to the public-welfare board, whose highhandedness she had protested in a raucous sit-in. As a result of White's concern for Negro neighborhoods, his critics now call him "Mayor Black...
...policy boards. Such local control, the panel argued, would make the schools more responsible to the needs of the community; it would also keep parents from blaming the city's board of education, a remote central power, for everything that goes wrong. The plan was enthusiastically endorsed by Mayor John Lindsay, who presented it to the legislature...
Second Thoughts. Meanwhile, the state legislature was having some second thoughts about decentralization. The state senate in Albany rejected the mayor's original proposal and began to consider a number of compromise plans that would bring neighborhood control of the schools on a gradual basis. In the wake of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville protests, the United Federation of Teachers entered the fray, led by its aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued...
...week's end the state senate agreed to a modest and largely meaningless proposal, allowing Mayor Lindsay to appoint four new members to the nine-man board of education-the four being in favor of decentralization. The board was then enjoined to produce a new plan for consideration by the legislature next year...