Nine years ago, a task force recommendation to replace the city’s three student-assignment zones with six appeared doomed from the start. Some task force members strongly opposed the recommendation, and a month later the proposal died before the School Committee.
This time around, however, a proposal that would allow more students to attend schools closer to their homes appears to have more momentum. It received a nearly unanimous endorsement Monday night from an advisory group appointed last year by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who has vowed to change the system.
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This is absurdity in its highest form. Micheal ONeill should know that the budget hearings are time sensitive and of utmost importance. The Assignment process is not going to change next year. It can be deliberated in a timely manner. When we are uncertain as to where Federal and State funding will be loss, we have to focus on this first. Just because Menino promised a "radical change " it should not come at the cost of fiscal prudence.
Replacing a fairly transparent map with a "complex algorithm", i.e., a black box. Count me among the skeptical.
Stop bussing!