Word: planning
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Willie wasn't at the school committee meeting, but he strongly agreed with McGuire's concern. "It's a very sad day for Boston to leave the high ground of a fair plan that didn't give preference to anyone and empowered parents, while making it impossible for a school to reject any student," he said...
...suit alleges that the plan illegally limits the numbers of white students attending any one school through unfairly configured school zones and by providing priority placement to minority students...
Willie and plan co-designer Michael Alves, the senior planner at Brown University's Equity Assistance Center, voluntarily produced a 26-page analysis of Walsh's lawsuit, calling the suit "frivolous and without merit...
...conclude that the 'Controlled Choice' student assignment plan is not one of rigid racial quotas intended to obtain racial and ethnic balance," they wrote. "It is a flexible plan that guarantees access for all population groups to all the regular educational offerings of the Boston School System...
Today's school system is 49 percent black, 26 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white and 9 percent Asian, essentially ensuring somewhat diverse schools regardless of the assignment plan, Payzant said...