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Jun 21, 2024 · 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. That approach, which lasted through the late 1980s, elicited intense opposition — some of it violent and virulently racist — in certain parts of the city, including Charlestown and South Boston, particularly during its early years.
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Jun 20, 2024 · Photo Courtesy of the City of Boston Archives . Fifty years after the Boston’s court-ordered busing decision, busing in Boston Public Schools shows little impact on students’ test scores and college enrollment. A new Boston Globe article features work by Blueprint Co-Directors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak and Affiliate Clémence Idoux.
Jun 20, 2024 · Boston Latin School, the district’s flagship institution, spends approximately $24,000 per student every year, significantly less than the district average. At the Joseph Lee School — where King refuses to send her sons — per-student spending is more than $35,000. But in Boston’s broken school system, money is only part of the story.
Jan 11, 2023 · Court-ordered forced busing ended in 1988, and history might remember Boston’s forced busing program as a failure in closing the racial divide within the city’s public schools. But Janey argues looking solely at the outcome neglects the sacrifices that Black parents, and especially Black women, made to ensure marginalized children got an adequate education.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Gazette spoke with Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville about Boston’s busing crisis and what has improved — and what hasn’t — over the past half-century. An expert on school reform, Reville was secretary of education in Massachusetts from 2008-2013 and is now the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at HGSE.
Sep 10, 2021 · A 6-year-old girl with epilepsy was not allowed to take the bus to school because there was no monitor onboard. ... September 10, 2021 / 5:43 PM EDT ...
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Sep 9, 2021 · The Boston school bus drivers' union wants the start of school in the city to be postponed. Latest. U.S. World; ... September 8, 2021 / 11:58 PM EDT / CBS Boston BOSTON (CBS) – The Boston school ...
