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...students who are members of Harvard's Class of 1987 graduated too early to benefit greatly from the recent reorganization and desegregation of the school systems. Although some of the elementary schools did offer special programs, none were as extensive as the new magnet schools...
...mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters, the myth of the neglected gifted student is more fiction that fact. And though public education, particularly in inner city schools, has fallen victim to President Reagan's band-aid educational policies, magnet schools and other specialized programs offer talented students an alternative to accelerated education...
...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...