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The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from ...
Although Boston was by no means the only American city to undertake a plan of school desegregation, the forced busing of students from some of the city's most impoverished and racially segregated neighborhoods led to an unprecedented level of violence and turmoil in the city's streets and classrooms and made national headlines. [1]
Unlike Boston, which experienced a large degree of racial violence following Judge Arthur Garrity's decision to desegregate the city's public schools in 1974, Springfield quietly enacted its own desegregation busing plans. Although not as well-documented as Boston's crisis, Springfield's situation centered on the city's elementary schools.
The school board’s decision occurs amid a backdrop of JCPS transportation operations dysfunction, something that entails a dramatic shortage of bus drivers. Some drivers who have resigned cited ...
At least 14,000 magnet students who relied on busing this school year will have to find private transportation or enroll in resides schools. Students at two schools, Central High and Western High ...
The Jefferson County Board of Education voted to end busing for the vast majority of magnet school students during its Wednesday meeting. Bus transportation is ending for most JCPS magnet schools ...
In the 2010–2011 school year, 75.2% of METCO pupils were African American, 3.4% were Asian, 16.8% were Hispanic, and the remaining 5% were classified as multi-race or "other." The demographics of Boston's school district in 2003 were 35% African-American, 41% Hispanic, 13% White and 8% Asian. [15]
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