Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Docter is shown at his Northridge home in 1992. Docter was president of the Los Angeles school board in 1976, at the time ...

To the editor: Robert Docter was my third-grade teacher at Vanalden Elementary School in May 1957 (“Robert Docter, L.A. schools leader who opposed spanking, fought for integration, dies at 97,” Dec. 5 ...

Robert Docter, former L.A. school board president, dies at 97. His aggressive integration efforts cost him reelection in 1977. Docter led successful effort to ban corporal punishment in 1975, calling ...

Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment and who sacrificed his political career trying to integrate campuses through busing, has died ...