The Ocean Hill School Crisis: Conflict in a Counterfeit Community.

Opposes the efforts of the United Federation of Teachers to block the implementation of a Ford Foundation-sponsored educational experiment decentralizing the management of schools and giving ghetto parents control over community schools in the Ocean Hill Jewish neighborhood in New York. Criticism against the bureaucracy and centralized power of the New York Board of Education; Suggestion that the union opposed decentralization because it wants to negotiate only with a centralized board; Race polarization created by the deployment of African American police force in Ocean Hill School; Compromise offered by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board to the union to settle the dispute; Implication of the decentralization and community control issues at Ocean Hill-Brownsville for other schools in large U.S. cities.