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...Houghton School district is in an area includes a large black population as well as Harvard married students living in Peabody Terrace...
...Cambridge City Council agreed late Monday night to settle at last the Houghton School controversy by appropriating $100,000 to buy 16 portable classrooms...
Black community leaders have accused the City Council of "horsing around" and stalling the construction of a new school. The Council originally argued that it could not build a new school because there was no place to put present Houghton students...
Finding such a site has not been easy. Ideally, it should be close to the Houghton neighborhood, to avoid the bussing of children to school, and yet should cause a minimum of inconvenience to persons living near the classrooms. Both the B- School field and a DeWolfe St. Site owned by Harvard and the Archdiocese of Boston appear to meet these criteria. The Houghton PTA has unofficially welcomed the proposed locations...
...them, and accept Harvard's offer. If there is to be a final round in the portable classrooms fight, it should be fought in the open, when the City debates the appropriation for the classrooms. The quibble over site selection is now pointlessly delaying the construction of the new Houghton School...