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Flynn, who helped lead South Boston's opposition to court-ordered busing in 1974 and introduced a bill in the state legislature to abolish compulsory education, pledged yesterday that the health of the public school sys- tem would be one of his top concerns.
The plethora of confusing, contradictory lower court decisions on the separation of church and state have precluded any coherent interstate-supported busing for parochial students is constitutional; but somehow state funds for field trips are not. The purchase of somehow state funds for field tripos are not. The purchase of...
"With kids coming from unequal backgrounds. I don't know how fair it would be to use this rule as the only criteria," he says. Jackson adds that the 700 cutoff mark would be especially detrimental to Black student athletes since "their national median is 707," about 100 points lower...
Flynn, 44, was born and raised in the Irish working-class district of South Boston. In his early days as a state legislator, he was an outspoken conservative, opposing school busing and the Equal Rights Amendment and supporting the death penalty. Though he is still against busing, he has moved...
But King, who naturally appeals to the city's more intellectual and chic liberal residents, has been largely unable to communicate exactly what makes him different from Flynn. And, probably out of fear of alienating the much-needed white vote, he has not effectively criticized Flynn's opposition to the...