Editing Ford Foundation (section)

=== New York City public school decentralization ===
In 1967 and 1968, the foundation provided financial support for decentralization and community control of public schools in New York City. Decentralization in Ocean Hill–Brownsville led to the firing of some white teachers and administrators, which provoked a [[New York City teachers' strike of 1968|citywide teachers' strike]] led by the [[United Federation of Teachers]].<ref name="Podair2001">{{cite web| last=Podair| first=Jerald E.|author1-link=Jerald Podair| title=The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis: New York's Antigone| url=http://www.gothamcenter.org/festival/2001/confpapers/podair.pdf| work=Like Strangers: Blacks, Whites and New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis| publisher=[[Mike Wallace (historian)#Gotham Center|Gotham Center]]| access-date=2014-05-14| date=6 October 2001| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414233032/http://www.gothamcenter.org/festival/2001/confpapers/podair.pdf| archive-date=14 April 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref>