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Article: City councilors must vote again on neighborhood schools plan
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1997
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The Boston City Council will be forced to vote for a second time
on whether to put a neighborhood schools question on the November
ballot, thanks to a citizens' petition.
The nonbinding referendum would ask voters if they want to scrap
the current system for assigning children to schools, which uses
racial diversity as a chief standard.
The council rejected the ballot-question proposal last month. But
members of the grass-roots group Boston Parents First put together a
citizens' petition, asking that the referendum proposal be
reconsidered at the July 23 City Council meeting.
"It's one thing to say no to a fellow city councilor, but quite
another to say no to a constituent," said Councilor ...