SCHOOLS STAND BY RESIDENT RULES HUB MAY APPEAL RETURN OF 2 BOSTON LATIN PUPILS From: The Boston Globe | Date: January 6, 2004| Author: Anand Vaishnav, Globe Staff | Copyright 2004 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Boston public school officials vowed a vigorous legal defense yesterday of the School Department's residency requirement, as two seventh-graders who live part-time in the suburbs returned to Boston Latin School under a judge's order.

In their first public comments on the case, School Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant and School Committeee chair woman Elizabeth Reilinger said they have no plans to settle the case and that they may appeal a Suffolk Superior Court judge's ruling directing ...

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