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   Jun 21, 2024 · 50 years after busing, its legacy remains ambiguous and contested in Boston. FILE - Buses arrive at South Boston High School, Jan. 8, 1975, as classes resume at the racially troubled institution. Police were on hand to provide protection as Black students arrived.

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2. www.wbur.org › cognoscenti › 2024/06/20The desegregation of Boston’s schools was a long time coming

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   Jun 20, 2024 · Certainly, no Black parents had been clamoring to send their children to South Boston High School. Yet they desperately wanted to get their children out of their segregated and failing...

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3. apps.bostonglobe.com › metro › 2024Boston's busing in photos: 50 years after desegregation

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   Jun 20, 2024 · A resident of South Boston reacted during a riot near South Boston High School on Dec. 11, 1974. The clash between police and a crowd of 1,500 people outside the school after a white student...

4. www.wbur.org › news › 2024/06/17'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public ... - WBUR

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   Jun 17, 2024 · Leola Hampton was a student bused from Roxbury to South Boston High School, and Suzanne Lee was a teacher and principal in the district. Interview Highlights. Highlights from this interview have...

5. www.zinnedproject.org › news › the-boston-busingThe Boston ‘busing crisis’ was never about busing - Zinn ...

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Black students desegregating South Boston High School were met by a mob of White people throwing rocks, bottles, eggs and rotten tomatoes, and yelling, “Niggers, go home!” The situation grew worse over the weeks.

6. www.wbur.org › news › 2024/06/17The complicated history of school choice in Boston - WBUR

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   Jun 17, 2024 · Police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School on the second day of court-ordered busing on Sept. 14, 1974. Some buses were stoned and several arrests were made. (AP...

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   When did buses arrive at South Boston High School?

   • FILE - Buses arrive at South Boston High School, Jan. 8, 1975, as classes resume at the racially troubled institution. Police were on hand to provide protection as Black students arrived.

   Fifty years after busing, its legacy remains ambiguous and contested in

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   Are Boston public schools racially isolated?

   • Students of color are now more racially isolated in Boston public schools than ever before. Currently, BPS has roughly 85 percent students of color, whereas white students were in the majority [57 percent] when busing began. To have an integrated student body in every school, given current demographics, is virtually impossible.

   School reform expert on 50-year legacy of Boston busing — Harvard Ga…

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   Did Boston's School Committee intentionally create a segregated public-school system?

   • Fifty years ago today, federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ruled that Boston’s school committee had intentionally created and maintained a segregated public-school system. When the school committee failed to produce a plan to remedy the situation, the court implemented a plan to desegregate Boston’s public schools via busing.

   Fifty years after busing, its legacy remains ambiguous and contested in

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   How does Boston deal with children's lives outside of school?

   • Boston, like a lot of cities, has got major challenges in dealing with the circumstances in children’s lives outside of school. Children are in school for only 20 percent of their waking hours between kindergarten and grade 12. So, school is a fairly weak intervention in terms of changing the prospects and opportunities available to young people.

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   Jun 18, 2024 · Nearly 50 years ago, a landmark federal court decision found the Boston School Committee had illegally perpetuated segregation and allocated lower funding in predominantly Black neighborhoods. It ordered racial rebalancing of white and Black students through busing.