Word: urban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before drafting the plan, Willie and Alves held three community forums attended by over 500 people. They met with the Urban League, the Black Educators Alliance and "every recognized advocacy group in the city dealing with education," according to Alves and Ellen Guiney, Flynn's educational adviser...
...current controversy grew out of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in September, 1987, which declared the Boston Public School System "as desegregated as possible given the realities of modern urban life." With that ruling, the Boston school system had the opportunity to move away from the mandatory busing system which had been in place for 15 years to a more flexible school assignment plan...
...Willie explains it, is that parents will get to choose their children's school subject to one constraint, race. Boston will be divided into three zones, and each school will have a racial ratio within 10 percent of the zone's racial ratio. Willie, a professor of education and urban studies, says that students will be allowed to attend any school in their zone so long as the racial balance of the school remains intact...
Hanging on the wall of City Manager Robert W. Healy's office is a plaque praising the city for exceptional urban design...
...Healy says the difference between the two is mostly "stylistic." His goal--to run a financially stable city by focusing development in small areas--is the same. And he adds that he does not get involved in large-scale urban planning debates...