N.Y.C. Teachers May Be Shipped Out to Harvard

The Rev. Milton Galamison, a Negro member of the New York City Board of Education, yesterday proposed that New York send the 83 teachers at the center of the strife in its schools on a one-year paid sabbatical at the Harvard Ed School.

The teachers were dismissed last spring by the local board of a predominantly Negro school district in Brooklyn which was set up to test decentralization of the school system. The local board accused the teachers of trying to sabotage the experiment. The city school board ordered their reinstatement--over local board protests--after the New York teachers union struck for three weeks to protest the dismissals.

Galamison proposed that the teachers be given "one year fellowships in urban education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education." He said that the Ford Foundation had expressed interest in the idea, but had not promised to pay for the fellowships. Galamison introduced the plan at a meeting of the New York school board, the local board, and the teachers 'union.

Theodore Sizer, dean of the Ed School, last night said that he knew nothing of the proposal. Sizer said that Ed School professor Spencer McDonald had been in New York yesterday conferring with some parties in the school dispute. McDonald had not yet contacted him with any information on the dispute or possible solutions, Sizer said.

Another proposal which emerged yesterday was that the decentralization dispute be solved by taking the local districts completely out of the jurisdiction of the city school board, and putting them under the auspices of a university school of education. Harvard and the City University of New York were mentioned as possible candidates.

"This idea has floated around for years in New York and other cities," Sizer said, commenting that he did not know "its exact currency" in New York