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Article: Councilors irked at Menino for home-school plan delays
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1998
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Confounding his political advisers and many of his constituents,
Mayor Thomas M. Menino has quietly put the brakes on plans to change
the way students are assigned and transported to schools in Boston,
City Hall officials say.
In response to cries for a return to so-called "neighborhood
schools" -- where parents are given the choice of sending their kids
to schools close to their homes rather than, in some cases,
transporting them across town -- Menino had agreed to explore a
modified school-choice plan, to go into effect next September.
That plan would have created 11 districts or clusters of schools,
giving parents a choice of schools closer to home. But after
listening to school ...