Description: Sen. Michael Barrett says core curriculum fails to prepare students, especially in sciences, since test scores do not compare well with European and Asian countries. He endorses Bush's education plan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1991
Description: Interview with the sole beneficiary of a home ownership assistance program likely to be dropped by the state. Interview with another woman of middle income who cannot afford to buy. Lew Finfer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1991
Description: Middlesex County District Attorney Thomas Reilly talks about the impact of budget cuts and layoffs in his office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1991
Description: US military capabilities & strategies to be used in Persian Gulf. M20+M1 tanks, helicopter, B52 bomber, thunderbolt attack plane,fighter bomber stealth F17, F11,fighter planes F16,F14,sea launch cruise missile
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1991
Description: MFA exhibit of photographer Minor White shows his juxtaposition of natural and human forms, abstract images in landscapes, and Christian symbolism.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1991
Description: Former missile site in Topsfield becomes shelter as result of McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, enabling conversion of federal properties. Gov. Weld inaugurates shelter at ribbon cutting ceremony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991
Description: Students and colleagues of law professor Mary Joe Frug reminisce after a memorial service at Harvard. Site of murder on Sparks Street, Cambridge, marked by flowers in tribute.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1991
Description: At Mass. College of Art, junior high students view exhibit of Nazi propaganda, including film, which belies the Holocaust, and from which they learn about ethnic prejudice and hatred.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1991
Description: Marcus Jones reports on the problems faced by condominium owners and renters in buildings owned by absentee investor-owners. Allston resident Elisabeth Schneider and others are witholding rent in protest of poor maintenance and unpaid taxes and utility bills. Jenny Gill, a member of the Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation discusses impacts of the 1980s "condo conversion boom" in Allston/Brighton and the Fenway, and urges community activists to purchase distressed condos and turn them back into affordable rental housing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1991
Description: Ray Flynn and Edward Kennedy address gathering to inaugurate new Boston City Hospital construction. Steam shovels and welder at excavation site adjacent to old BCH.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1991