Boston's search for a new exam school admissions test is the latest in the district's efforts to ensure the city's top high schools — particularly Boston Latin School — reflect the rest of the city. School leaders face mounting criticism over significant demographic disparities at the district's most prestigious schools.
"The exam school piece was just part of the bigger picture," said Barbara Fields, a member of the Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts. Fields is retired now, but she was an elementary school teacher in 1975."The focus in my community was more on the very tragic things that were happening, like buses being stoned."
But set-asides were a huge point of contention for some parents. By the mid 1990s, one of them, Michael McLaughlin, who was white, sued on behalf of his daughter Julia, arguing the policy was unconstitutional. Once again, Judge Garrity played a critical role in the policy changes that would follow. He ruled that the policy was no longer"narrowly enough tailored to pass constitutional muster" two decades later.
creating advertising about the program, and offering free transportation to weekend test prep programs.
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