Word: shedd
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When Philadelphia police broke up a demonstration by black high school students in November 1967, School Superintendent Mark Shedd protested angrily to Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo. In Shedd's view, the cops were unnecessarily rough with the students and had undercut his efforts to negotiate with them about a black studies program. The commissioner strongly disagreed, and as Shedd recaHs their meeting, Rizzo told him: "If it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna get your...
Rizzo did. He made Shedd's "permissiveness" a major issue in his successful campaign for mayor this fall. Immediately after the election, Mayor James Tate at Rizzo's behest appointed two known opponents of Shedd's to the school board, thereby reducing the supporters of the superintendent to a minority. Last week, just before the board met to fire him, Shedd, 45, accepted the inevitable and resigned...
Fast Redo. Shedd has been widely regarded as one of the nation's most progressive and innovative school officials. His basic problem in Philadelphia, as one suburban colleague puts it, was that he "tried to redo fast a school system that had just been through 30 years of inactivity." Shedd graduated from the University of Maine and has a doctorate in education from Harvard. He first came to the attention of politicians and educators in the early 1960s, when, as superintendent in Englewood, N.J., he successfully cooled the racial tensions that flared over school integration. In 1967 he took...
...Shedd's drastic remedy reflected a problem that is already acute in big-city schools but increasingly serious in every U.S. village and town. Although the nation will spend a record $85 billion on its public and private schools this school year, the 9.7% increase from last year is barely enough to keep abreast of 1) inflation, 2) a 1% enrollment increase of 500,000 students, and 3) wage increases for teachers and other personnel that went into effect before the freeze. When the National Education Association made a telephone survey of 63 school systems in metropolitan areas last...
...education enabled the schools' income to rise faster than the G.N.P. Now citizens are no longer as willing to vote themselves increases in the already steep local property taxes that still pay for most schooling. Their reluctance is strengthening the case of educators who, like Philadelphia's Shedd, say the nation needs a new way to raise its school funds. The inequitable property tax, which yields the least resources for schools in urban poor areas that are stuck with the most complex social problems, recently was found unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court (TIME, Sept...