71. The future, as University of Chattanooga-Tennessee professor Bob McNutt sees it, is one with strong neighborhood schools that have all the resources needed. 72. The goal was to create enriched education centers that would draw students voluntarily away from segregated neighborhood schools. 73. The idea behind the schools is to replace large, overcrowded neighborhood schools with smaller ones in which students, parents and community members share in decision making. 74. The issue is not neighborhood schools. 75. The irony is that there are areas in most cities where an attendance zone would easily result in a racially balanced neighborhood school. 76. The Los Angeles system has become overwhelmingly nonwhite with neighborhood schools. 77. The neighborhood school has long since been demolished and carted away. 78. The Lightners enrolled Sam in the neighborhood school. 79. The passes make it easier for students who live on the fringes of a community to attend their neighborhood schools. 80. The prospect of neighborhood schools gets mixed reviews in Kansas City. |