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...assigning students to the schools closest to their homes rather than forcing students to travel to other parts of the city to achieve racial balances. Given that most of Boston’s neighborhoods are far more diverse than they were in the 1970s, this system could potentially reflect the city’s diversity more accurately. It would also allow parents and community members to take more ownership of schools and exert political muscle that could bring increased funding and resources to the most needy of the BPS. The recent growth of charter schools shows that parents and community...
...tackle them head on. Boston’s demographics have changed so drastically since the 1970s that busing is now inadequate to ensure diversity; BPS currently spends more than $24 million on desegregation busing in a system that is 85 percent minority. It is impossible for BPS to reflect Boston’s true diversity with so few of the city’s white majority (54 percent) remaining in the system—a symptom of the “white flight” that has persisted since busing was implemented nearly 30 years...
...controversy has emerged over concerns that money being requested for Iraq is not available for urgent unfunded needs at home; the schism between high expenses of an assertive foreign policy and domestic tax and budget cuts is becoming more palpable; and public opinion polls have begun to reflect skittishness about the U.S. role in Iraq and a softening of the president’s popularity...
...freshmen on the team reflect Bienvenu’s lead and motivation...
...Shiite religious and communal leaders are often violently divided over their attitudes to working with the Americans and over what role their religion should play in government, but there's broad agreement among them that a new order in Iraq should reflect their demographic dominance: Shiites comprise upward of 60 percent of the population, but they have historically been dominated by the Sunni minority comprising around 15 percent. The concern to ensure their dominance may explain the insistence by even moderate Shiites that the new order be shaped by a democratically elected body. And, of course, many Sunnis are unhappy...