Governor Bob Graham and the Improvement of Florida's Education System (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In late June 1983, Gov. Bob Graham faced a tough choice. He had threatened to veto any budget legislation that did not provide new taxes to fund educational reforms--especially salary raises for teachers (a campaign promise). But although three...

Governor Bob Graham and the Improvement of Florida's Education System (A) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In late June 1983, Gov. Bob Graham faced a tough choice. He had threatened to veto any budget legislation that did not provide new taxes to fund educational reforms--especially salary raises for teachers (a campaign promise). But although three...

Governor Bob Graham and the Improvement of Florida's Education System (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In late June 1983, Gov. Bob Graham faced a tough choice. He had threatened to veto any budget legislation that did not provide new taxes to fund educational reforms--especially salary raises for teachers (a campaign promise). But although three...

The Case of the Segregated Schools (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1982, the Treasury Department announced that the Internal Revenue Service would reverse a twelve-year-old policy and no longer deny tax-exempt status to schools that practiced racial discrimination. The argument, advanced by Reagan appointees...

Boston Housing Authority (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On July 25, 1979, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity ordered the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), landlord to almost 50,000 residents of the city, into receivership. Concluding that, after almost five years of litigation in a class...

Boston Housing Authority (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On July 25, 1979, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity ordered the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), landlord to almost 50,000 residents of the city, into receivership. Concluding that, after almost five years of litigation in a class...

The Legal Services Corporation Under the Reagan Administration: The Reagan Board (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed the elimination of the federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC), sparking an intense and ideologically bitter fight in Congress between pro- and anti-LSC forces. Part A gives a brief history...

Improper Advances: Nixon, Ehrlichman and the Secretary of the Army

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1972 the Nixon White House quietly threatened to block all army promotions unless the army agreed to promote an officer who had been passed over by the promotion board. This case examines the dilemma faced by Brigadier General Dewitt Smith,...

Community Development in Gainesville (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case traces the experience of Gainesville, Georgia, with federal grants for community development. Part A describes the genesis and development of Gainesville's Model Cities program from 1967 until 1973. The city, generally conservative and...

Press and the Neutron Bomb: Abridged

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In June 1977, a page-one Washington Post story disclosed that the Carter administration budget contained funding for production of enhanced radiation warheads--the so-called neutron bomb. In April 1978, following mass protests in several West...

Americanizing the Vietnam War

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1964-65, the United States made a series of decisions that culminated in the commitment of large ground forces to South Vietnam for sustained offensive action. President Johnson thus effectively took over the defense of South Vietnam. This...

The Legal Services Corporation Under the Reagan Administration: The Congress (A) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed the elimination of the federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC), sparking an intense and ideologically bitter fight in Congress between pro- and anti-LSC forces. Part A gives a brief history...