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Black leaders charge that the plan was made without consulting minority groups. Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn and members of the School Committee accuse each other of using educational policy to further their political careers. And parents and minority members of the School Committee refuse to endorse the busing plan until...
Fourteen years after Federal Judge Arthur Garrity ordered crosstown busing to desegregate Boston's public schools, the city is embarking on another overhaul of its troubled educational system. Last week local experts hired by Mayor Ray Flynn proposed a new approach, called controlled choice, that seeks to foster competition while...
DURING his 18 years in the Senate, Weicker established himself as a maverick who challenged his party's leadership and its increasingly conservative slant. Weicker fought the Reagan Administration over its budget priorities and took on the GOP right wing on such issues as civil rights, abortion, school prayer and...
LOUISE DAY HICKS--The controversial Hicks is one of the key characters in J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Boston's busing crisis, Common Ground. Lukas describes Hicks, the school committee member who marshaled Boston's anti-busing forces, as a "huge marshmallow of a woman in her...
During the school desegregation controversy, Boston Archbishop John Cardinal Cushing prevailed to pressure from pro-busing advocates, and tried to appeal to Hicks, a devout Catholic, to cease her crusade. Cushing told Hicks he had been asked to to march in protest with a group of Blacks in front of...