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: 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: In Chelsea Sen. Edward Kennedy campaigns for John Silber. Silber cozies up to children in bilingual class. Marjorie Clapprood smiles,claps for singing children. Silber, Clapprood, Kennedy, Diana Lam each at podium
Description: John Silber is booed at Chelsea public hearing where he defends BU's management of school system; advises no cuts in education budget and home rule petition raising property taxes for local services.