Abstract
Boston at the end of the twentieth century was a substantially different city from the working-class city that elected James Michael Curley four times, or even when moderate voters chose John Hynes and John Collins as mayors in the 1950s. Boston in 2000 became a smaller, less densely populated city, dropping by 200,000 inhabitants over a 50-year span. Who remained in Boston, and who used the public schools? Both the 2000 U.S. Census and the several university surveys provide a comparison and contrast as far back as with 1930, the highpoint of Boston Public School enrolments.
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Cronin, J.M. (2008). Future Choices, Disparate Voices. In: Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present. Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611092_10
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