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"...a racially imbalanced school is not educationally harmful." —Louise Day Hicks, Boston School Committee, 1974 The Boston Public Schools is the oldest public school system in America, founded in 1647. It is also the home of the nation's first public, elementary and high schools. Up until 1975, the schools were as segregated as the neighborhoods: Charlestown and South Boston-Irish Dorchester a…