Learning from Boston’s Mistakes, Hopefully

By Liam Day
July 2nd, 2008

Interesting overseas item: it seems that Amsterdam, one-third of whose population is now immigrant, is looking to the U.S. for solutions to help desegregate its schools. Among the cities whose school selection process Dutch officials are taking a look at are Seattle and Boston.

As our own Steve Poftak pointed out last year in an op-ed in the Dorchester Reporter, Boston’s school selection process is bewilderingly complex and, at the end of the day, doesn’t respond to the choices the city’s parents are clearly making.

Here’s hoping Dutch officials don’t fall into the same trap.