A local group urges a radical restructuring of the system
Over the past four months in Boston, 27 volunteers have gathered as often as three times a week to debate, wrangle, let off steam and, sometimes, even agree. Their meetings, some lasting as long as six hours, have had a single aim: to hammer out a program aimed at rescuing Boston's battered public school system. The result of the labors of the Educational Planning Group (E.P.G.), a beanpot of school officials, local lawyers, politicians, housewives and neighborhood leaders of various ethnic and racial persuasions,...
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