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...faces a daunting task in improving the Chelsea school system. Students from the district have tested among the lowest in the state for basic skills. The average annual income for a Chelsea household is $10,000, and the teenage pregnancy rate for Chelsea students is one of the highest in the state...
...privatization plan is facing two lawsuits, one from a teachers union arguing that the plan does not allow for enough public oversight and thus violates the state constitution, and another from Hispanic parents charging that city officials did not give the community adequate opportunity to respond to the plan before formally adopting...
When it approved the plan in June, theMassachusetts state legislature passed a home rulepetition which exempted B.U. from five publiceducation laws, including those requiring openmeetings, open records, public audits and thoseregulating the hiring and firing of personnel andteachers...
...apparent reaction to criticism fromcommunity members about a closed decision-makingprocess, B.U. and the school committee formed anoversight committee this summer to monitor B.U.'smanagement and to report to the state Board ofEducation...
Clemente said that B.U. hopes to find the moneyfrom state and city sources to increase teachers'salaries permanently