Word: school
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to see the same old Timilty-White show?" Boston School Committee President David Finnegan asked over and over again while campaigning in the preliminaries. Yes, Boston voters answered on September 25, but now they may be having second thoughts. Although the names are the same, this time there are a couple of differences...
...cares about the School Committee. Candidates spend as much time convincing the public to take them seriously as they do debating issues. While City Council candidates bask in the limelight, school committee candidates patiently remind voters that they wield as much power as their more esteemed colleagues...
First, candidates point out that the committee controls all appointments within the system, from top administrators down to driver's administrators. The council can only make noise over City Manager James L. Sullivan's personnel decisions, they say. Then they explain how the school committee makes up its own budget, while control of the city budget rests mainly with Sullivan. Once satisfied that the audience knows they do more than decide what year to teach "Health," candidates can turn to the real issues...
...there are important issues in the campaign. Violence in Boston has candidates worrying over racial imbalance in Cambridge schools. Twenty-five per cent of Cambridge high school students are minorities (40 per cent if you use federal, not state, guidelines). Incumbents nervously defend the committee's "Racial Balance Plan." Passed last year, the plan attempts to avoid forced busing by encouraging parents to voluntarily send children to racially-imbalanced schools by providing special "magnet" programs...
Integrating minorities into school administration has split candidates into two groups: those who give affirmative action top priority and those who favor promotion from within the predominantly white school system. Last year there were no minorities on the school committee. This year, two of the 13 candidates--Henrietta S. Attles and David C. Blackman--are black...