Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many outsiders, Boston Public Schools’ court-ordered integration campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s was an unqualified failure that ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

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We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...

Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced about how ...

Fifty years ago Sept. 12, the first school buses rolled through Boston as part of a federal judge’s order to desegregate the Boston schools; an initiative often known as busing. For the past three ...

BETTER QUICKLY. ON TOP OF HIM BEING ON AN IEP, HE’S ALSO AUTISTIC. CHERYL BUCKMAN TOLD US THE START OF SCHOOL HAS BEEN A BUSING NIGHTMARE FOR HER SON. HE WAS OVER 25 MINUTES LATE ON DAY ONE. HE GOT ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent of Schools Mary Skipper announced a number of changes Thursday with the release of an independent review of school bus safety in the city. It was launched ...