Description: John Silber considers bilingual education and too small budget as problems in Chelsea public schools. Proposes to make that school system a laboratory for BU School of Education.
Description: Math professor at BU School of Education teaches college students methods to impart lessons effectively to elementary students. She endorses collaboration with Chelsea schools.
Description: Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos visits Chelsea High to discuss Hispanic dropout rate. Diana Lam. Bilingual classroom. Students mill around outside school.
Description: What can be done about paltry public education funding in Chelsea, the state's smallest and nearly poorest city? Mayor James Mitchell, Gerard Indelicato. Chelsea City Hall, classroom, triple deckers, Tobin Bridge. Picketing teachers.
Description: Mayor John Brennan, Jr. explains Chelsea's economic plight requiring layoffs of teachers, police, firefighters. Voters failed to override Prop 2 1/2 despite the dire straits. Triple deckers. Tobin Bridge.
Description: Chelsea teacher explains his commitment to working in a poor school system, and why he objects to BU's plan to manage that system. Middle school students in classroom and corridors.
Description: Chelsea Mayor John Brennan Jr. is faced with serious fiscal problem and will have to lay off many city employees and cut services. City Hall, library, fire department, municipal offices.
Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS OPENS RECYCLED CHELSEA FACTORY AND SPEAKS ON PRESERVING OPEN SPACE. SWEETHEART PLASTICS. REP RICHARD VOKE INTRODUCES DUKAKIS AS “NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE US.”