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A. Well, I didn't talk about race. That wasn't an issue. I don't think I even mentioned it, except I would like to have had anybody, regardless of their race or color or creed, vote for me. I didn't even mention race. I did say I...
In the 1976 Democratic primary, I carried Boston. I carried Beacon Hill. I don't think you'd say that was because they hated blacks. I didn't mention anything except busing up there.
Cambridge's controlled-choice program--the first of its kind in the nation--was put into place in 1981 as a voluntary effort to racially integrate the city's public elementary schools without implementing mandatory busing. All attendance zones, or districts, were abolished, allowing parents to list their top three...
"The school choice program in Cambridge works well," Fanini said. "However, on the down side, we spend over a million dollars a year in busing kids throughout the city... Any program that pays out millions of dollars for busing which is not actually educational will have to be addressed eventually...
Admittedly, much recent federal intervention in education has been disastrous. In most places, busing increased racial tensions and segregation, drove whites away from public schools, and increased per-pupil costs. But the individualism of the Bush-league is not right.