Let’s Talk : L atinos and the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools
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Let’s Talk: Latinos and the desegregation of the
Boston Public Schools
Miren Uriarte, PhDUniversity of Massachusetts Boston
This presentation is part of a larger work entitled “What Makes Change? Bilingual Education in the Boston Public Schools, 1971-2010”.
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Latinos in Boston 1960 1970 1980
Total Latino Population 1,858 16,637 36,430
Puerto Rican 51.40% 44.03% 51.88%
Cuban 17.26% 8.08%
Other nationalities 48.6% 38.71% 30.04%
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Conditions ….of Migrants in the Farms
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….of Migrants in the City
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Villa Victoria
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Children out of school
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Children out of school
3d of Spanish speakers out of schoolTaylor, FBoston Globe (1960-1981); Nov 19, 1970; pg. 3
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Conditions in the schools
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Latinos organize educational programs
Summer Programs
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Bilingual Clusters
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Transitional Bilingual Education Law
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Transitional Bilingual Education Law
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Desegregation…
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Desegregation…
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Desegregation…
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Problems Continued…
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Problems Continued…
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Problems Continued…
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When Phase 2 starts…
Safety Assignment
Latinos were considered “other minority” used to racially balance heavily black or
heavily white schools without a clear pattern Bilingual Education Programs
Clustering needed for bilingual programs
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Comité de Padres en Defensa de la Educación
Bilingüe Plaintiff Intervener in the desegration case;
continued in this role until the end of the court’s oversight in 1985
Vehicle for the inclusion of issues related to the rights of non-English speakers in the case
Focused on programmatic issues“The Comité based its recommendations on educational, rather than racial grounds. It called assignments based on program need –bilingual education, in this case –as a first priority”. M Cohen, 7 parties file their ideas on school plan. The Boston Globe, Mar 4, 1975
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By 1977…