Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor White responded to these demands by forming a six-man committee to investigate reforms in the Boston Schools. But for a number of reasons the device seems unlikely either to stimulate real reform or to convince blacks that their grievances are getting adequate hearing...
When the committee eventually makes its recommendations, the mayor will still have a hard time pushing them through Boston's obstinate School Committee. The mayor's only direct lever in school affairs is his power to veto increases in the School budget each year. That is hardly a sufficient weapon to convince the School Committee to approve broad-reaching reforms. The mayor is counting therefore on using indirect political pressure on the Committee. Any proposal, of course, will have his authority behind it. It will also be backed by the authority of the six-man committee--a group whose members...
More basically it is unlikely that the Mayor's Committee will come up with anything that will satisfy blacks or students. While the mayor is "moving toward community involvement," as one aide to White puts it, he still opposes community control in the extreme form which most community people seek...
Equally important, the community has failed in its most immediate and critical task: convincing all the parties in the controversy that someone is really listening to their case. Mayor White appointed the two black members of the Committee, a power which community leaders insist should have been left to Roxbury's Black United Front. Students are also pointing out that they have no representatives on the mayor's group...
...Mayor's action has given the city some time, but it promises no instant solutions to the crisis. The controversy will probably be out on the streets again before very long