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Article: Menino plan sees `walk-to' schools for all Some wary of neighborhood idea
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 13, 1999
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The construction of five schools in Boston would mean that within
six years, virtually all city students would be able to walk to a
school in their neighborhood, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday.
The plan, which could lead to the end of a quarter-century of
busing students to racially balance schools, was met with passionate
debate yesterday among academics, politicians, and educators, airing
historical arguments over equity, race, and politics.
But Boston public school parents, particularly minority parents,
struggled with a more basic question: Should they believe that more
neighborhood schools would improve what busing never could -- the
quality of their child's education?
"I don't ...