Description: Impasse continues in Boston school bus drivers' strike. Parents disgusted at having to transport children. Laval Wilson about to propose making drivers public employees (who cannot strike).
Description: Long rows of parked school buses behind chain link fence. Striking bus drivers wear union buttons. Union members meet in conference room. Interview with David Finnegan about negotiations and wage issue. Interview with two steelworker union officials on stalemate with Hudson and Brush Hill Cos. Close-up on padlock. Bus drivers with placards. Man in information center talks to parent on phone about alternative transportation to school.
Description: Bruce Bolling and Ray Flynn hold PC to say they want an appointed rather than elected school committee for Boston. Rita Walsh-Tomasini and Gerald Anderson disagree. Hubie Jones.
Description: Boston school committee debates who should have power to hire and fire; endorses shift of personnel administration to superintendent. Joseph Casper, Abigail Browne, John Grady.
Description: Superintendent Laval Wilson recommends Boston School Committee close underenrolled schools and relocate and consolidate others. Plan does not meet with approval, though it is intended to save $3.9 million in the education budget. Jean McGuire.
Description: Boston City Council compromises on school reform legislation, giving superintendent authority over teacher tenure, hiring, demotion, dismissal…leaving school committee to focus on policy.