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Article: Neighborhood schools question rejected City Council vote blocks ballot effort
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 31, 1997
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After a debate straight out of the Boston of the early '70s,
complete with denouncements of busing and charges of racial
insensitivity, the City Council yesterday narrowly rejected a
proposal for a ballot question on the way children are assigned to
city schools.
The question would have asked whether voters favor establishing
so-called "neighborhood schools" -- giving parents the choice to send
their children to schools closest to their homes, rather than having
them bused to different part of the city.
After a 6-6 vote -- a tie meant the initiative did not pass --
proponents said they would take to the streets and front porches of
the city to collect the roughly 24,000 signatures required ...