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...Public education here could be transformed into a model for urban school systems across the country." Silber has labelled the BU plan an "institutional response to the disappearing traditional family unit...
...President John R. Silber has called Chelsea "an ideal laboratory for a University experiment...
...contract will establish as its primary governing body a seven-member board composed of Silber, Peter R. Greer, dean of BU's School of Education, five people appointed by Silber. Parents and community leaders will make up two advisory boards...
...novel scheme has sparked bitterness among Chelsea teachers and the school committee, who say it gives B.U. too much power. B.U.'s blunt-spoken president, John Silber, admits that the program "is not going to be run like a Quaker meeting." B.U. originally proposed that a university-appointed board would make most school decisions. Outraged school committee members successfully lobbied for the right to to overrule verdicts on the budget or school policy with a two-thirds vote. However, B.U. would still hold most of the cards...
...single protest will not move him, but consistent pressure sustained over a long period of time might. Supposedly, there is a plan afoot in the student government to encourage parents not to pay their bills in protest. Hard-ball tactics like these are the only way to talk to Silber...