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Article: Council avoids vote on neighborhood schools
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 24, 1997
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The Boston City Council yesterday side-stepped voting on whether
to make the neighborhood schools issue a ballot question in November,
while a new school committee task force prepared to study what the
school committee chairman called a less "politicized" means to
improve school choice.
For the second time since June, the Boston City Council put off
voting on the ballot issue, instead sending the proposal to the
council's education committee.
The nonbinding referendum, inspired by a citizen's group called
Boston's Children First, would ask voters if they want to scrap the
current system of assigning children to Boston schools. The system
uses racial diversity as the main standard.
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