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Sep 16, 2024 · September 16, 2024. 127. This story was told by Victoria Kelley of Roslindale who was part of Boston’s busing program, which began fifty years ago in September 1974. Kelley’s story has been ...
Jun 21, 2024 · 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.
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Jun 19, 2024 · How school segregation survived Boston’s busing. 03:42Resume. June 19, 2024. Emily Piper-Vallillo, The Emancipator. (Sophie Morse for The Emancipator) Children at the Lewenberg School in ...
Jan 11, 2023 · Finfer says the legacy of the ruling is still visible today, nearly 50 years later. “Some schools were nearly 60% white in 1974. Today, they’re 15% white in the Boston Public Schools,” Finfer said. “So, yeah, the issues are still going on today.”.
Jun 20, 2024 · 50 years after busing decision, a school system still unequal, still segregated. Busing was set in motion by rightfully furious Black parents making modest demands: equal educational opportunity for their children and good schools in their own neighborhoods. It never happened. By Mike Damiano, Milton J. Valencia, and Christopher Huffaker, Globe ...
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.
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Sep 7, 2023 · Bused black schoolchildren arrive with police escort at South Boston High School during court-ordered desegregation crisis, South Boston, Massachusetts, 1974. (Spencer Grant/Getty Images)
