A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 22, 1975

The opening of the school year, once an occasion for standard feature stories in the press, has acquired a new and formidable significance as the busing issue continues to smolder. "It is a sad sign of the times that covering the opening of school is considered a dangerous breaking news story," says Sandra Burton, chief of TIME's Boston bureau. A veteran observer of desegregation cases in California and Massachusetts—including the violence in Boston last year—Burton spent much of the summer exploring the effect of integration on children's achievements and the likely impact of extending school desegregation beyond the boundaries of...

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