At-large forum brings Council race to RCC
 Yawu Miller
To hear it from the nine candidates running for the four at-large seats on the City Council, each supports affordable housing, improved schools and efforts to stem violence.
But when eight of those candidates came to Roxbury Community College last Thursday night to meet voters from the black, Latino, Cape Verdean and Asian communities, stark differences emerged in the details.
Asked whether they would support legislation affirming tenants groups’ rights to collective bargaining with landlords, the incumbent councilors split along racial lines. Full story
 Red tape putting Chelsea education agency in bind
Brian Wright O’Connor
CHELSEA, Mass. — An award-winning Upward Bound program with a 40-year record of providing a pathway to college for thousands of low-income students is facing an imminent shutdown over a disputed grant application.
Choice Thru Education, launched in the early days of the War on Poverty, provides federally funded tutoring, mentoring, college visits and application assistance to children of the Bay State’s poorest city.
In November 2006, Choice electronically filed a $320,000 grant-renewal application, amounting to 80 percent of the program’s budget over a four-year funding cycle. A computer glitch kicked back the application, so Choice then re-filed after federal officials extended the deadline. Full Story
Roxbury Prep state’s best in grade 8 math
Dan Devine
When city and state education officials gathered in Roxbury earlier this month to applaud students’ improved performance on the 2007 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests, much of the praise was directed at Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School, the struggling Albany Street school where a year of significant progress has administrators using words like “turnaround.”
But if they’d set up shop at 120 Fisher Avenue — about a 10-minute drive from Orchard Gardens, on the other side of Columbus, just past the Parker Hill Playground — they’d have seen what it looks like when the turnaround hits 180 degrees. At Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, they’d have seen just how much progress persistence can bring. Full Story
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