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...principle is more sacred to American public education than the authority of locally elected school boards. Yet the Boston city council voted last week to abolish the independent School Committee and put city hall directly in charge of Boston's 57,000 public-school students, 80% of them members of minorities. Black leaders and the School Committee protested the council's action, which must be approved by the Massachusetts legislature and signed by the Governor. But Mayor Raymond Flynn, who is pushing hard to overhaul the debt-ridden system, argues, "There's just no time anymore to sit around...
Rauch said he thought Oliver was doing a disservice to Lowell House. "We had two candidates who ran in Cabot House on a platform that they wouldn't attend meetings, and they lost. Oliver ran on a platform stating that he wanted to abolish the council, not stating that he wouldn't attend the meetings," he said...
...while Massachusetts liberals can forgiveWeld for his few conservative positions, hissupport for the Citizens for Limited Taxation(CLT) sweeping tax rollback proposal is completelyunpalatable for many. Opponents of the CLT planargue that it will result in fiscal chaos, forcingthe government to abolish vital services for thestate's neediest citizens...
Question 1 would abolish the state census--a relic from bygone days used to set up districts for state posts. Every other state in the U.S. now uses the federal census for this purpose. In a more prosperous era, it might make sense to preserve the census, which provides a valuable source of information about the makeup of the state. But given today's economic climate, the $10 million that will go into the 1995 census could probably be put to better use. We support a YES vote on Question...
...state of Massachusetts is not Boston University. Silber could not (even if, and that's a big if, he wanted to) abolish individual rights by decree. His critics hysterical assertions are essentially red herrings; they border on the moot simply because such a parade of horribles cannot be implemented by any governor. Rather than slavishly follow the media's largely irresponsible soundbite fixations, the citizens of the Commonwealth should see in Silber the administrative ability, intelligence, courage and leadership of which Massachusetts is in such dire need...