Word: magnetics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happened to Webster is that it was turned into a so-called magnet school. Across the country, schools like this, usually specializing in one subject area, such as math and science, but always emphasizing excellence, proliferated during the 1970s to promote voluntary integration. The idea was that white families would be encouraged to enroll their children at an inner-city school offering a first-class program. And in some cities it was hoped that magnet schools would make court-ordered busing more palatable. "Magnets here are demonstrating that mandatory busing has not been the issue," says San Diego School...
...Reagan Administration, which has tried to put the brakes on busing for the past three years, seems to agree. Last week the Justice Department approved a school-desegregation plan for Bakersfield, Calif., that does not include forced busing but instead relies on the creation of four elementary magnet schools to win the voluntary cooperation of the city's white parents. Says William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights: "This is a blueprint for school desegregation in the future without relying on mandatory busing, which does not work in a very meaningful...
...Welfare in 1975 charged that the Bakersfield school district operated racially imbalanced schools, the district resisted busing. "The question now is whether the Justice Department is really committed to enforcing the law which requires desegregating schools," declared Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Magnet schools by themselves do not achieve desegregation...
Norman Chachkin, a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law insisted that the agreement "should have been backed up with a provision for mandatory busing." He cited Chicago as a city where voluntary desegregation based on the creation of magnet schools "has been nothing short of a disaster." Indeed, even though Chicago has had a network of magnet schools since 1973, its white student population has dropped to 16% from 29%. By contrast, Boston's magnet-school program, established in 1974 as part of a court-ordered desegregation plan that included busing, has become a source...
...Tremblay goes off the track when he for-sakes a deeper exploration of his characters for emphasizing Serge as a magnet for his sisters' frustrated sexual desires. Adult life has been unpleasant to them; and they hope to recover the imagined innocence of childhood by becoming their baby brother's keeper. The towering irony is that Serge's own childhood, shaped by his sister's loving ministrations, precluded his ever being a paragon of innocent morality: we find out that his lover. Nicole (played by Maura Barry), is actually his fourth sister...