Article Title
Key Issues Facing the Boston Public Schools
Abstract
This article is the third examination of the six issues the author identified in "Some Key Issues Facing Boston's Public Schools in 1984," following the November 1983 election of the first thirteen-member Boston School Committee. He revisited these issues in a 1988 report and now assesses how the policy leadership of the system fared in dealing with these challenges during the past decade. He discusses other issues at the close of this article. Writing from a sociological point of view, Dentler is primarily concerned with the question of how well the public school districts and their school staff are able to provide optimal learning opportunities to all students. He assumes that this can best be appraised in terms of district structure, history, and educational policy.
Recommended Citation
Dentler, Robert A.
(1994)
"Key Issues Facing the Boston Public Schools,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 24.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol10/iss1/24
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