Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move, designed to trim costs and take advantage of increased competition among private vendors, was revealed in a January memo sent to all University offices...
...current controversy grew out of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in September, 1987, which declared the Boston Public School System "as desegregated as possible given the realities of modern urban life." With that ruling, the Boston school system had the opportunity to move away from the mandatory busing system which had been in place for 15 years to a more flexible school assignment plan...
...struggle has roots in controlled choice itself, which threatens to take power from the entrenched School Department bureaucracy. Because the choice element means that schools must compete with each other to make themselves more attractive to students, Willie argues that "we have helped Boston move a considerable distance towards decentralizing its decision-making structure...
...movement to change the term to "African-American" attempts to give Blacks more awareness about themselves, and to become more concerned with Africa. But it is a move with more feeling to it than logic. For better or for worse, America is the only home Blacks have known...
...worst, the move by eight of the 12 houses to reserve one-quarter of their available space for random assignment draws charges of inconsistency--even a shade of hypocrisy--against the new system...