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Article: Menino issues call for neighborhood schools
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- January 21, 1999
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Bay State Banner
01-21-1999
Menino issues call for neighborhood schools
David G. Yosifon
With the words "neighborhood schools" -- a simple description to some, weighted code words to others -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino last week opened a Boston civic sore that has not bled for years, but which for many has never really healed.
Menino announced a plan to build five new schools as a first step to-wards re-establishing a neighborhood school assignment plan that would end 30 years of court ordered school integration that began in the 1970s.
The mayor's proposal, set forth in his state of the city address, was immediately endorsed by most city councilors, including Council President James Kelly, an ...