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BU/Chelsea Partnership receives All-Chelsea
award
At a ceremony held at the Chelsea City Hall on October 30, the 2002 All-Chelsea
Awards, the city’s first annual community awards, honored the BU/Chelsea
Partnership with the Contributing Stakeholder of the Year Award, which
recognizes a contributing person or organization from outside Chelsea.
A panel of 18 community leaders, including Chelsea youth, adults, and
members of community organizations and businesses, cited the longstanding
and beneficial relationship Boston University has had with the Chelsea
Public Schools. In June 1989, BU accepted the invitation of the Chelsea
School Committee to manage the city’s public schools under a 10-year
partnership agreement. In 1997, the agreement was extended by unanimous
school committee vote for an additional five years. The contract between
the school committee and BU gave the University a mandate to transform
the local schools. To learn more about the partnership, visit http://www.bu.edu/chelsea.htm.
More BU/Chelsea Partnership recognition
Nine Chelsea High School students earned the designation
Advanced Placement Scholar by the College Board, in recognition of their
exceptional achievement on the college-level AP exams, which were taken
in May 2002.
In June, Chelsea’s Frank M. Sokolowski Elementary School was recognized
by the Massachusetts Department of Education as a 2002 Commonwealth Compass
School, one of only seven elementary schools in the state to receive the
commendation for exhibiting extraordinary improvement in student performance
on the English and math MCAS exams. The school was recognized for implementing
a range of initiatives, including the After-School Reading Tutorial, which
is focused on creating a “School of Readers.”
SPH study featured in Essence
A study of dating violence in teenage girls, which was conducted by researchers from BU’s School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is cited in the November issue of Essence magazine. The article, entitled “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” highlights the fact that dating violence strikes one in five teenage girls and offers a checklist of signs of teen dating abuse.
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November 2002
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