Word: loughlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Loughlin, assistant superintendent of schools in Portsmouth, N.H., is worried, as are most other U.S. education officials, about the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Forms 101 and 102. They demand that he list the number of black, Hispanic, female and handicapped pupils in each class in the city's schools. Loughlin notes that the federal rules require gathering "a lot of data that we don't keep and that is illegal for us to find out." How does Loughlin cope? "Some of the answers we just make up," he confesses...
Like Pinga, Loughlin and Shapiro, entrepreneurs, executives and local officials throughout the land are bewildered and outraged by the growing number of federal rules and regulations. They seem to float out from Washington as casually as children blow soap bubbles, and all too often contain about as much substance. No one can possibly keep up with all the pronouncements affecting him and his business or profession, and many people have given up trying. Each national Administration has promised to cut the paper burden, only to end up adding to it. The Commission on Federal Paperwork, created in 1974 to figure...