East End Education Committee (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

In 1969, a group of housewives in Pittsburgh formed the East End Education Committee (EEEC) to continue the work of a group called Concerned Citizens. Concerned Citizens demanded reforms from Pittsburgh's Board of Public Education which would force the school board to become more responsive to the needs of its students. One of the first issues concerned the inadequate presentation of the school budget by the school board. Over the next few years, the EEEC convinced the school board to schedule a mandatory recess for the children. The EEEC successfully defeated the reappointment of 5 out of 15 school board members in November, 1969. The EEEC studied the amount of sexism in the textbooks used in the Pittsburgh's kindergarten through fifth grades and sent this study to the school board in April, 1972.