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Finally, after years of attack and conflict, Boston is trying to rebuild one of its fundamental institutions, the public schools. William Spring, who drafted jobs legislation in the Carter White House and is one of the key architects of the Boston Compact, thinks this is an important change from the old war-on-poverty approach. In the Sixties, reformers created new agencies and organizations to speak for the poor, believing that the old “establishment institutions” were hopelessly racist. In the Eighties, the new reformers must concentrate on rebuilding the battered old institutions of their communities, reviving them by changing them. |