School Committees were declared racist due to their pattern of locating schools within existing local neighborhoods, in other words, neghborhood schools, because that fostered a de facto segregation in the school system (since the neighborhoods themselves were typically either white or black, e,g, South Boston veresus Roxbury).
So the judicial answer was to (a) bus students out of their neighborhoods (short-term solution) and (b) locate new schools on the perimeter of adjoining neighborhoods.
This is not "news" to the Globe, since they advocated this. So -- the 'critique' of the unintended effect they isolate here -- obesity -- is stated in an intentionally "oblique" relative to the circumstances of its causation. And hence you see the Globe's capacity for self-criticism -- its non-existant.
Other reasons for the unrest are the recent public debates between Young and conservative parents, who say the district is pushing a liberal agenda in the classroom. Two residents sued the system for not following a state law requiring American flags in every classroom. And a handful of parents have pulled their children out of Newton schools, disturbed at what they call premature - and open - discussions of sexuality.***
Study: Schools Resegregating by Race***BOSTON (AP) - Almost 50 years after state-sponsored school segregation was outlawed, public schools are becoming increasingly divided by race, even as minority populations increase nationwide, according to a new report.***
The (b) solution causes violence in those schools, as rival groups and gangs fight to establish turf.