Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city and school officials dismissed many of the concerns raised by Willie and scores of other minority leaders. At Wednesday night's school committee meeting, they formally voted to remove the racial component of Willie's "controlled choice assignment" in the fall...
Menino said he hoped Boston, the city that invented the term "busing" 25 years ago, could move beyond the sometimes-violent racial polarization that marked the city following the court order of federal judge Arthur Garrity to end school segregation...
Though he said he's been considering the change for four years, Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant admitted his decision to remove the racial factor comes largely from the urgency of last month's class action lawsuit filed against the school system...
...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...
Payzant argued that the city's present-day demographics mean that losing the "racial fairness" guidelines "would not have a dramatic impact on the composition of the schools...