Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS AT TIMILTY SCHOOL, WITH TEACHERS, PRINCIPAL, SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS, press conference
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1982
Description: Laval Wilson & Robert Schwartz announce reduced superintendent's staff and shift to school-based management. Decentralization. John O'Bryant, Peggy Davis-Mullen.School Committee hq 26 Court Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1989
Description: Parent criticizes school committee's decision to close several Boston schools. Municipal Research Bureau recommends school committee be appointed, not elected. Sam Tyler, Laval Wilson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1989
Description: Parents question judgement and political motives of school committee in voting to close and consolidate nine schools. Judge will review validity of decision. Laval Wilson, Thomas O'Reilly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1989
Description: Dorchester family is faced with enrolling son in new high school because of school closings. Exterior of Jeremiah Burke High.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1989
Description: Madison Park High students comment on wide availability of drugs and lack of parental control and alternatives to drug use and selling. Sen. Kennedy testifies to Commission on Drug-Free Schools.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1989
Description: Gov. Dukakis speaks at Medford High, warning students about danger of drug use, and declaring schools to be drug-free zones.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1989
Description: Dukakis visits elementary school in Revere, talks with children learning on computers, turns pages of picture book; recommends new taxes. Rep. William Reinstein, George Keverian.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1989
Description: Dukakis proposes his own choose-a-school plan, which includes private and parochial students, to appease Bulger. Robert Schwartz, education advisor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/21/1989
Description: East Boston High School exterior. Students congregate in street. Security officer tries to corral them onto sidewalk. Police on motorcycles. White students interviewed about their boycott ,which is because of previous day's racially motivated stabbing. They make racist comments about the black students in their school. They demand metal detectors. Student leaders stand on platform asking students if they want scanners, organizing their position to present to the school administration. Several takes of reporter standup. Security officer talks informally to students about safety. Interview with senior Gary Gosselin on mood inside school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979