Public Education Association
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-09-14.
Mrs, J. A. (Betty) Shack, hostess and member of the League of Women Voters, and Dr. Frederick C. McLachlan of the Public Education Association, discuss the NYC school system on the 3rd day of the Teacher's Strike of 1968.
Shack and McLachlan describe the Public Education Association. It is a volunteer organization that is concerned with NY public schools and colleges; there are membership dues.
The topic of the program is: Who has responsibility for NYC schools?
It is explained that the Board of Education is supposed to run the system, but the Mayor and the City finance the Board.
McLachlan argues that the Board should not allow teachers to make policy decisions in schools (this is the 3rd day of a teachers' strike).
They discuss the dissatisfaction of citizens and teachers with the school system.
McLachlan disapproves of the decentralization plan - he does not like non-professionals in the school or having the authority taken away from the central Board of Education.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 92370
Municipal archives id: T2462
