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Facing the challenges that caused school desegregation

Facing the challenges that caused school desegregation

The city of Boston is approaching a 50-year milestone. We are about to observe the anniversary of school desegregation.

September 13th, 2023 >

An elected school committee would be disastrous

An elected school committee would be disastrous

No one old enough to have been in Boston during the school discrimination of the 1970s would be likely to support the return of the elected school committee. Back then, the school committee functioned as a bigoted bloc to prevent the mayor from complying with the laws that opposed racial discrimination in education.

February 22nd, 2023 >