Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, it has become obvious how justified the Board was in rejecting a compromise. Faced with a possible yearly loss of some $16 million in school funds, Committee Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt, and probably a majority of the Committee, now seems ready to support large-scale racial busing in Boston...
Eisenstadt claims to be a moderate in racial matters, and his sincerity will be tested in the next few weeks. It is incumbent upon the School Committee now to accept more than a busing plan if it is to eliminate racial imbalance. It must also work out a re-drawing of Boston's school district lines and a plan for building new schools, whenever possible, where white and Negro neighborhoods meet...
...today's meeting the School Committee will discuss the entire racial imbalance problem with a Task Force set up by the Massachusetts Board of Education. The Task Force brought the Center into the racial controversy this year by accepting its offer to serve in an advisory role...
...School Committee told the State Board Tuesday that it was waiting for the Joint Center's study so that it could submit a final, comprehensive racial imbalance plan. Boston stands to lose $41 million in state aid unless the School Committee presents a satisfactory plan...
According to William G. Buss, Assistant to the Dean of Education and a member of the Task Force, the Joint Center has also provided "a range of available alternatives" for a racial busing program. But sources at the Joint Center said that researchers there had only done substantial work on the redistricting plan...