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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...
...Good morning, gentlemen. I'd like to get right to the point. The urban schools of this country are dying from financial strangulation." The speaker was Philadelphia's blunt superintendent of schools, Dr. Mark Shedd, and he was telling a Senate committee just what he saw as the nitty-gritty facts. His proposal: that the Federal Government nationalize the nation's 25 largest city systems, at a cost of $10 billion to $12 billion per year. Without "something more than pious pie-in-the-sky pronouncements," he said, "there won't be, in the words...
...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...
Involved blacks are well aware of the meagre results of community control campaign, and a new note of pessimism has slipped in to the rhetoric of some community activists. "In Ocean Hill," says Fred Holliday, an intense, soft-spoken black who was special assistant to Shedd for two years, "blacks proved the white man isn't giving up any power." And Toye Lewis, Education coordinator for the New Urban League in Boston calmly echoes his words: "I don't think we're going to be able to achieve in major cities any semblance of community control...