Sentences with phrase «indispensable stabilizing factor»

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»