The American Jewish Congress today endorsed the Bundy plan for a de-centralized New York City school system but urged stronger guarantees of teacher tenure and seniority rights. The plan, submitted by the Mayor’s advisory panel headed by McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, was approved in a 19 to 5 vote cast by representatives of American Jewish Congress divisions and chapters throughout the five boroughs according to David Haber, chairman of the AJC’s New York metropolitan council.
The AJC statement described the Bundy plan as “a far reaching and imaginative approach to the problems plaguing the school system in New York.” It recognized, however, “the need to protect the rights and interests of the professional staff of the city school system” and urged that “every guarantee of due process be afforded the teaching staff.”
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