Describes how "a highly successful program of legal services for the poor is torn between community control advocates in the neighborhoods and radical intellectuals in the central office of the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. (Author)

This report examines the difficulties faced by the San Francisco school district in attempting school integration, and places these events in the context of the national picture of urban school desegregation. Chapter I describes the kind of community pressures to which the school board was exposed, and how the school board responded to these…

This discussion is organized into four sections. In an introductory section, it is pointed out that the word "decentralization" appears to have many meanings. There is a need to clarify definitions, and to examine decentralization in a practical, working context. In Part 1, "Background and Issues", some of the major issues…