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IN 1965, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the Racial Imbalance Act calling for the cessation of all state funds to schools in which minorities comprised 50 per cent or more of the student body. It took nine years, and a court order, for that act to be implemented in Boston's...
The most tragic aspect of the current busing conflict is that it has allowed the far deeper crisis of inadequate education for America's children to be sidestepped and obscured.
I believe that the critical challenge today is to ensure a good education for all. Few whites I believe would object to integration or even busing itself, if its purpose and result were the best possible education rather than the futile shuffling of students from one school to another with...
The busing controversy has "finally brought to many parents' attention the sorry state of public education in Boston public schools," she said.
Atkins said he believes busing advocates are "protesting on the basis of inferior schools." Racial prejudice, fear and resentment are the "three motivating factors" underlying anti-busing sentiment, he said.