Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's trouble began after a neighborhood governing committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily transferred teachers because they were supposedly trying to sabotage the experiment. The committee was never able to document its harsher charges, but it stubbornly refused to back down, and hired its own nonunion instructors. The city's central school board finally suspended the Ocean Hill committee and its administrator, Rhody McCoy, because it refused to return the unwanted teachers to their regular duties. The move seemed to ease the crisis. The teachers were grudgingly accepted in seven of Ocean Hill...
...Ocean Hill's heavily Negro and Puerto Rican Junior High School 271, the controversial teachers were harassed by the nonunion staff. One acting principal, herself a Negro, claimed that she was confronted and threatened in her office by outside militants and later intimidated by Ocean Hill Committee Chairman the Rev. C. Herbert Oliver-a charge Oliver dismissed as "a vicious lie, vomited from the jaws of hell...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
Unimpressed by the growing opposition to his strike, Shanker stepped up his demands; for the first time he insisted that the whole Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment in community control be considered a failure and dissolved. He was also angered at Lindsay for appointing outspoken advocates of decentralization to the school board. Two of them, John Doar, former federal civil rights prosecutor, and the Rev Milton A. Galamison, a Negro who has led school boycotts, were elected president and vice president of the board...
...McCoy agreed to readmit the disputed personnel, only to have the community block their entrance the next day. The intermediate political institutions, necessary to confine conflict, have broken down because their constituencies are both aware and uncompromising, and the city, now forced to deal directly with the people of Ocean...