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...gained nationwide attention last March with a plan to have B.U. take over the school system in Chelsea, the first time in the U.S. that a private educational institution has administered a public school system. Now in its first year of operation, the plan has been sharply criticized by teachers and area residents...
...Albert H. Giroux, director of public relations for the Cambridge School Department, says Rindge and Latin reciprocates Harvard's interest. "[The high school] takes special interest in preparing students to attend Harvard. We appreciate Harvard's concern for our undergraduates' applications," he says...
With an enrollment consisting of 50 percent minority students, Rindge and Latin is one of the country's most diverse public high schools. Students representing 64 different nations and speaking 46 different primary languages make up the student body, Giroux says...
Jackson, the treasurer of the two-year-old Committee on Help for the Advancement of Needy Children through Education (CHANCE), says the gulf is wide between the ivory tower and public high school...
...Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., a nonprofit organization closely associated with the Cambridge public school system, also draws on Harvard students for its tutoring programs with Rindge and Latin...