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...Boston, Mayor Raymond Flynn is also facing opposition because he endorsed Daley, with whom he attended Providence College in the early '60s, in the Chicago mayoral race. Yet in 1987, Flynn went to Chicago and stumped for the late Harold Washington...
...Flynn campaigned for Harold Washington, and I certainly was pleased to see that, but his effects in regard to Richard Daley seem to be a step backwards," Boston City Councillor Charles Yancey said...
THIS struggle began last December, when Boston Mayor Ray Flynn hired Harvard Professor Charles Willie and Michael Alves, a former head of the state desegregation office, to develop a more flexible desegregation scheme for the city...
These protests were politically astute. Flynn was forced to answer tough questions about the poor condition of city schools, as the press paid significant attention to parents' claims that they were unsatisfied with the quality of their children's education...
...time during this debate, however, did any minority advocates question controlled choice's effectiveness as a desegregation scheme. But when it became clear about two weeks ago that the new plan would pass the School Committee without Flynn promising new funds, these leaders shifted the focus of their attack. They called controlled choice a "farce" and a Trojan Horse for resegregation. Now they seem ready to sacrifice controlled choice itself for additional exposure of their concerns...