Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with their own parent-dominated 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...
Last week, though, state legislators postponed any serious consideration of the plan for at least a year. And in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a pilot project designed to test decentralization ran into serious trouble. The case suggested that, if ill-defined and badly administered, the cure might be as bad as the ailment...
...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...
...Committee on Educational Policy Wednesday approved a plan which will allow any undergraduate to cross-register at M.I.T., Brandeis, Boston University and the Ed School for courses on Africa...
...following a Harvard Policy Committee recommendation, instructed the College Administration to make necessary arrangements with those institutions over the summer, and they are expected to agree to the plan. "We have been assured that instructors at these schools would welcome some Harvard students," Dean Ford said Wednesday...