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Article: New hope for neighborhood schools
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1999
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Black and Hispanic students, who make up 75 percent of the public
school population in Boston, will be the main beneficiaries of
neighborhood schools if the Menino administration funds and places
them in a scrupulously fair manner.
Twenty-five years ago, the Boston School Committee couldn't be
trusted with that task. The city was guilty of unconstitutional
segregation, leading to intervention by a federal court. The current
student assignment plan, which still relies on transporting students
across the city, is an extension of that degraded past. Any
Bostonian who believes that officially sanctioned racism abides here
permanently isn't likely to embrace neighborhood schools again,
seeing ...