Word: guiney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before drafting the plan, Willie and Alves held three community forums attended by over 500 people. They met with the Urban League, the Black Educators Alliance and "every recognized advocacy group in the city dealing with education," according to Alves and Ellen Guiney, Flynn's educational adviser...
Flynn's advisor Guiney believes the school system bureaucracy is opposing the controlled choice plan because the workers think their jobs are being threatened. She says, "Name any bureaucracy. They don't like to change. I bet Harvard University doesn't even like to change...
...Guiney argues that the controversy over minority involvement in the formation of the plan is a case study of the elected School Committee's ineffectiveness. "It certainly does call into question the School Committee's viability as a body which works together," she says. "The Black School Committee member who made the charge met five or six times with the consultants...
...Guiney argues that school assignment and budget issues are separate. She says, "This wasn't a budget document for the Boston Public Schools which assessed and weighed all plans. This was a student assignment plan...[The mayor] is willing to talk about [money], but only within the context of the school budget...
...Guiney and O'Leary by Brown. WP--Brown...