Boston marked the fiftieth anniversary of the busing disaster in 2024, however right this moment a special sort of disaster is unfolding. Fewer than 50,000 college students attend town’s colleges, in comparison with greater than 90,000 in 1974.
In a collection of 5 editorials printed in 2024, the Globe made a case for closing and consolidating some colleges and reinvesting the financial savings into the classroom — regardless of the painful controversy that closures are inclined to arouse.
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