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...Chelsea school system's reputation for failure originally prompted BU's offer of aid. At present, the city has the highest dropout rate in the state, at 52 percent. In addition, 42 percent of its students come from families receiving federal assistance...
...city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything. "What do we have to lose?" asks school committee chairman Bruce Robinson...
Unlike Bennett, Cavazos is a strong advocate of bilingual education as a means of reducing the high dropout rate among Hispanic high school students...
Cambridge public schools received $170,000 this fall in Federal grants for a special program to combat the city's 35 percent high school dropout rate...
...federal grant awarded to Cambridge is part of a $23.9 million national grant to lower dropout rates...