Word: bostons
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...recently adopted "controlled choice" student assignment plan in Boston is one such legitimate proposal, now under illegimate attack. Black members of the Boston School Committee and the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) alleged last week the plan is tantamount to resegregation and is not in the best interests of minority schoolchildren. They may file a lawsuit against the school system to block the proposal's implementation...
Minority leaders' charges are simply untrue, and their lawsuit threatens to undermine a plan which has been proven across the country to enhance parental choice and educational opportunity. These leaders have also unnecesarily divided Boston city politics along racial lines, creating an environment ill-suited for lasting educational progress...
THIS struggle began last December, when Boston Mayor Ray Flynn hired Harvard Professor Charles Willie and Michael Alves, a former head of the state desegregation office, to develop a more flexible desegregation scheme for the city...
TRUST is a rare commodity in Boston city politics. Hattie McKinnis, President of the Citywide Parents Council, said Black parents continue to harbor distrust towards Boston politics because of its reluctance to endorse desegregation 15 years ago. "There is a lot of fear it will go back to segregation, despite what the consultants say," she said...
...need to expose them for what they are," said Kathy Lawrence, a member of the Coalition to Defend Abortion Rights (CDAR)--a Boston group that sponsored the demonstration...