The Only New Experiment in Education in New York City

In 68, black and porterecan parents in ocean hill brownsville tried to exert community control over their schools. The plan for community control was get people on the local school boy that represented these kids. But this experiment threatened the power of the teachers union. So to stop it, the union went on strike city wide in the fall of 19 68,. shutting down schools across new york city for seven weeks. To many supporters of communty control, the strike looked like an attack on black and portowegan families by the union. And most of the city's teachers were jewish.