Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointing relatives and friends of politicians to the Cambridge School system had become so routine that most people didn't realize it could happen any other way. Then a small group of disgusted parents and educators decided the time had come to organize for "reform" of Cambridge schools. It had to happen outside the system and it had to change the top of an entrenched, school/political bureaucracy...
...elections provided the slim "reform" majority who walked into office in January of 1972 with a detailed structure for hiring a professional educator/administrator for the Cambridge schools, which included getting citizens into...
Despite personal intimidation--rocks through windows of School Committeemen's homes, obscene 4 a.m. phone calls, both threatened and real physical violence O children of "reform" organizers and public intimidation trumped-up legal battles and marathon live TV coverage of the circus-like hearing preliminary to the vote to resume the search for a new superintendent--the majority persevered and finally brought Alflorence Cheatham to Cambridge...
...Independent (non -"reform") can dilates for School Committee are not campaigning against Cheatham. He's too popular. What is not generally understood is that while they may not fire him immediately, Cheatham will not be patsy for their patronage appointments or manipulation of his programs. He will cash in his chips because he is a professional and can walk out of 1700 Cambridge Street tomorrow into any one of the many top jobs across the nation...
...seriously tipped constitutional checks and balances in favor of the Executive Branch. Written by Newton Minow, FCC chairman in the Kennedy Administration, John Bartlow Martin, an author and a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Lee Mitchell, an attorney specializing in communications law, Presidential Television urges a thorough reform of broadcasting regulations before the President's "electronic throne" becomes all too real...