Results tagged “busing”

It turns out that Boston's new school zoning proposal was even crappier than previously reported, so it's back to the drawing board, reports the Globe. How crappy? One of the zones, the one that would have included the North End and parts of Roxbury, didn't have enough seats for 616 middle schoolers, an entire school's worth of kids. Meanwhile, the zone that would have stretched from East Boston to Charlestown would have had a middle school that was completely empty. No word on remedial arithmetic classes for school administrators. [Globe] more ›

Last year, at his annual State of the City address, Mayor Thomas Menino sought to prove the thesis of the recently released Nas album entitled "Hip Hop is Dead" by declaring that the rap community had given him the name "T-Mizzy." He might need some credibility and political capital with minority Bostonians after unveiling at last night's speech that he wants to save on school transportation costs by dismantling part of the city's busing program. more ›