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Family Security Act

Description: Family Security Act requires states to provide education, training and jobs, rather than emphasizing welfare payments. Resulting new labor force would be provided Medicaid and child care in return for work.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988

Frank Power interview

Description: Exteriors of Charlestown High School. Stop sign, with "Forced Busing" written under the "Stop." Pam Bullard interviews Frank Power (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) about preparations for school desegregation and the coming school year. Power says that his first priority is the safety of students. Power says that flexible campus options will be cut back for safety reasons. Power says that many Charlestown students have transferred to parochial schools and schools outside of Boston to avoid busing. Power discusses about the inadequate facilities at current Charlestown High School building, and is hopeful about the potential of the newly planned building. Powers says that the physical education program at the Charlestown Boys Club will be cut due to safety concerns. While shooting cutaways, Power and Bullard informally discuss his frustrations with the limitations of the school's facilities. Students will eat lunch at their desks because there is no lunchroom at the high school. Bullard does several takes of reporter standup to the Charlestown busing story.
0:00:20: Visual: Shots of the exterior of Charlestown High School school; closeup of stop sign with graffiti reads "STOP forced busing." 0:02:12: V: Pam Bullard interviews Frank Power (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) outside of the school in Monument Square. Power says that he is concerned about safety at Charlestown High School; that safety concerns will force a cut back on the flexible campus program; that the school is ready to open; that he will not speculate on the reaction of Charlestown residents to busing; that students have transferred out of Charlestown to schools outside of the city to avoid busing; that there are plans for a new high school in Charlestown; that programs like physical education at the Charlestown Boys Club will be cut due to safety concerns; that he has worked in integrated schools before; that there are security plans in place for the opening of school. Powers and Bullard talk informally about cutting physical education at the Boys' Club for safety reasons; about lack of space at Charlestown High School; about cutting out the flexible lunch option for safety reasons; about the lack of lunchroom at Charlestown High School. 0:09:28: V: Shot of Charlestown High School exterior. Bullard does a few takes of her introduction to the story on busing at Charlestown High School. Bullard introduces story: Charlestown is expected to have 236 African American students and 524 white students; Charlestown residents are angry about busing; police fear that resistance to busing will be strong. 0:13:04: V: A car circles Monument Square with a loudspeaker blaring an anti-busing message. Bullard does several more takes of the introduction to the story.
Collection: Evening Compass, The
Date Created: 08/19/1975

Franklyn Jenifer bows out

Description: Interview with Franklyn Jenifer after he announced his resignation as Chancellor of Higher Education to become president of Howard University.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1990

Girls' math phobia

Description: High school girls attend conference at Simmons to help them study math without intimidation. Professor writes on blackboard. Math class at Newton North High.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1989

Governor Sargent's Racial Imbalance

Description: Address by Governor Francis Sargent about the proposed repeal of the 1965 Racial Imbalance Act. Program includes analysis before and after the address. Reporter Ed Baumeister introduces Evening Compass topics. Louis Lyons gives brief overview of world news, including possibility of impeachment proceedings for President Nixon and possible succession of Vice President Gerald Ford; inflation and interest rates; debt ceiling. Ed Baumeister begins commentary for governor's address with brief history on 1965 Racial Imbalance Act; footage of supporters marching outside state house, footage of woman speaking on April 3, 1974 in opposition to mandated busing. Busing proponent student Autumn Bruce of Springfield addresses panel. Greg Pilkington and WGBH reporters discuss 14th Ammendment and racial imbalance in schools. Lyons provides commentary on upcoming presidential election. Arpad von Lazar of Fletcher School at Tufts University comments on Carnation Revolution in Portugal. von Lazar and Lyons discuss Revolution. David Wilson of the Boston Globe introduces Governor Francis Sargent's address regarding racial imbalance. Ed Baumeister introduces address and schedule for news coverage after. Governor Sargent addresses federally mandated busing in public address. Discusses equality, distribution of wealth, and failure to integrate and provide better education. Refuses to repeal Racial Imbalance Act in the name of moving forward with civil rights. Talks about expanding METCO program; creating magnet schools; expanding education budget. Following Governor's address, Baumeister, Pilkington, and Pam Bullard, discuss the governor's speech after the address.
Collection: Evening Compass, The
Date Created: 05/10/1974

HENNIGAN SCHOOL

Description: KIDS AT COMPUTER TERMINALS, PRAISE FOR THE HENNIGAN SCHOOL AND ITS PROGRAM, JOHN NUCCI, ROBERT SPILLANE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1985

Hernandez School bilingual program

Description: Hernandez Elementary School in Jamaica Plain offers Spanish English bilingual education as an option to all students, not just as transitional program for Hispanic students. Classroom.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1988

High school students at State House

Description: High school students congregate at State House to express dissatisfaction with school program cuts and demand taxes to fund education. Nicholas Paleologos, Marjorie Clapprood, Sal Albano, Harold Raynolds.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1990

House debates AIDS education

Description: House votes to investigate state funding of AIDS education because of uproar over explicit 'safe gay sex' brochure. Marjorie Clapprood, Marie Parente, John Flood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/24/1987

Jerome Wynegar, Part 1

Description: Interview with headmaster Jerome Wynegar about changes at South Boston High School in last two years in four areas: administration, discipline, curriculum review, community relations. He sees improvement in students' ability to learn with fewer disruptions than in first years of busing. He discusses the school's attempt to prepare students for their futures. He says more research is needed into educational methods for a changing world; experiential learning should be emphasized over traditional lectures. He endorses alternative programs because attendance is encouraged. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1978