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 ...

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...

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 ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Good morning. It’s been a lovely first week (newsletter- and weather-wise). Our inbox is back up and running, and we’re grateful for your comments, ideas, and critiques. For example, reader Amy (and a ...

In the mid-1960s, Lyda Peters taught first graders at The Quincy Dickerman Elementary School in Dorchester, then a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood. Peters was one of the few Black ...

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 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 ...