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Jul 9, 2019 · Court-ordered busing faced a tougher battle in Boston after U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered the city’s public schools to desegregate in June 1974. Protests in the New England city ...
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The busing controversy accelerated white flight from Boston, with the schools losing almost 50 percent of their student body after 1975 and white students constituting less than 15 percent of the school population, down from more than 60 percent in 1970.
Jul 8, 2019 · In 1980, integration, after-school opportunities, and a supportive school atmosphere were all considered characteristics of a good school. But only a few years after busing wound down, the Reagan Administration published its Nation at Risk report, claiming that the poor public school quality was a national security threat. Since then, we’ve ...
Jul 14, 2022 · A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.
Jul 3, 2019 · Amid such controversy — including questions among some educators and civil rights activists — busing efforts declined by the 1990s. "Prejudice was a big motive for white flight, but so also ...
Jun 7, 2021 · June 7, 2021, at 2:49 p.m. The Lingering Problem of School Segregation. More. Charlie Riedel, AP-File. Students sit separated by plastic dividers during lunch on the first day of in-person ...
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Jun 28, 2019 · "Both were controversial," says Dartmouth College Prof Matthew Delmont, a historian and author of the book Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation.
