Teacher Militancy Dialogue from the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

A chronicle of the issues involved in the Newark Teachers' strikes in the decade 1963 to 1973, focusing on the conflicting roles of the Board of Education, the Newark Teachers Union, the Newark Teachers Association, and the increasing influence of the local black community. (EH)

This report is essentially a documentary outline of the events associated with the Newark teacher strikes followed by an analysis of the implications of those events for the future of education in Newark and elsewhere. The chronology provides a detailed delineation of the sequence of events before, during, and after each strike. The information…

Ocean Hill-Brownsville was one of the three projects established by the New York City Board of Education to experiment with the reality of community participation. In time, much of the early optimism of community planners was dampened. The Board of Education's procrastination and its unwillingness to develop guidelines prior to the initiation of…

In this speech the subject of eroding public confidence in the public schools is discussed. Elected school boards and school administrators quite frequently do not solve the problems facing the schools, and this failure is often because of lack of communication with the public and lack of citizen participation in decisions affecting school…

The contributors to this volume examine various legal aspects of the following school problems: decentralization, collective negotiation, and student rights. These writers detail the practical aspects of recent decentralizations in New York City and Detroit, and make recommendations for local board functioning in decentralized systems. Three…

This document includes three addresses presented at a 1-day conference on collective negotiations in education. In his "Keynote Remarks," Dr. Herbert F. Johnson outlines three broad concerns affecting the collective negotiation process in New York: (1) Limited State, local, and Federal financial resources for education; (2) revolutionary…

This collection of articles revolves around the struggle for full racial equality through community control of schools by the black and Puerto Rican people of New York City. The opening chapter describes the city Board of Education's deliberate policy of intensifying and consolidating segregation during the very years when it was most volubly…

In late spring of 1967, the New York City Board of Education recognized an experimental school district, comprised of two junior high schools and six elementary schools, in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of New York City. The prime impetus for this experiment in community involvement in decentralized school administration stemmed from a coalition…