The Nation - News from May 26, 1989
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley selected a racially mixed interim school board in the first step toward reform of a public school system once described as the worst in the nation. Many of the appointees have been vocal critics of the city’s school system. The action is the first of a series of steps ordered by the Chicago School Reform Act, which will decentralize the public school system in a bid to bring parents and the community into the educational system.
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