Word: shanker
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...area's eight schools until tensions have relaxed. Three principals named by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville local board were suspended from their jobs pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district or walked out of their jobs in sympathy; four nonunion teachers accused of hostility toward U.F.T. members were transferred out of the district. Administrator Rhody McCoy was suspended until he would promise to cooperate with Johnson...
...schools reopened the day after teachers voted to approve the settlement, but the fragile nature of the truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...
...Shanker is out for power and dis ruption of the school system. We all know that the strike is not at all in the interests of the students but to prevent the system from decentralizing. Local boards might well mean quality education for all students in New York City - something which hasn't arisen from a slow, centralized bureaucracy. I am a senior in high school, and if the system remains the way it is, I am glad that this is the last year that I will be a part...
...appears that TIME has chosen to elect Albert Shanker as the villain in the New York City public-school dispute [Oct. 25]. The fact that Albert Shanker lives in Putnam County and earns an annual salary of $16,750 (which TIME stated) bears as much relevance to the cure of the city's ills as the fact that Rhody McCoy lives in Roosevelt, L.I. and earns an annual salary of $30,000 (which TIME neglected to state). If you must elect a villain in this crisis, I suggest that we widen the range of candidates to include Bernard Donovan...
...your report that the son of Albert Shanker attends untroubled public schools in Putnam County with only six Negroes, we add that Mayor Lindsay's children attend exclusive private schools. Mr. Shanker, however, is fighting for the rights of all children and all educators. Mr. Lindsay...