Citywide Educational Coalition records, 1972-2001.

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Citywide Educational Coalition records, 1972-2001.

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This collection documents the Citywide Educational Coalition, a grassroots educational reform organization, located in Boston, Massachusetts. The records illuminate its formation by Mary Ellen Smith, Hubert Jones, Francis Parkman, and Clyde Miller to choose a superintendent of the Boston Public Schools; its role in the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools; and its efforts to disseminate the policies and practices of the Boston School Committee and the Boston Public Schools in language that parents could understand. Also documented is the response of the anti-busing organization, Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), to Judge W. Arthur Garrity's orders and the Coalition's collaboration with three court appointed councils. Meetings of the Boston School Committee and its standing committees, as well as programs offered in the Boston Public Schools and interviews conducted by the Coalition with parents, teachers, principals, and headmasters are documented. School reform; parent participation in education; school assignment and student choice; vocational, special, and early childhood education; community and parent organizing; and parent training projects are also documented. Records include meeting minutes and summaries, correspondence, questionnaires and surveys, statistics, newsletters, fact sheets, reports, proposals, grants and contracts, VHS and audio cassettes, and photographs.

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Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Citywide Educational Coalition (Boston, Mass.).

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In 1972, Mary Ellen Smith, Hubert Jones, Francis Parkman, Clyde Miller and other citizens, parents, and community activists met to find a way to participate in the process of choosing a superintendent of the Boston Public Schools. The Coalition sought input from large numbers of neighborhood residents and organizations to help develop "Community Agenda for the Boston Public Schools," an outline of questions and issues to use during the interview process. Although unsuccessful in choosing a candi...

Boston Public Schools

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The Boston Public School system dates from 1647 and is the oldest public school system in the U.S.; in 1798 the School Committee (formed 1710) denied a group of black parents their request to establish separate schools for their children due to the unequal treatment they received; in 1812 the School Committee voted to support separate schools for blacks and by a830 a completely separate educational system was functioning. In 1850 the doctrine of separate but equal facilities for dif...

Boston Public Schools. Citywide Parents' Council

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Boston, Mass. School Committee

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