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FIFTY-ONE HISPANIC RESIDENTS v. SCHOOL COMM., CHELSEA

421 Mass. 598 (1996)

FIFTY-ONE HISPANIC RESIDENTS OF CHELSEA vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF CHELSEA (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Rom (Roger L. Rice with him) for Fifty-one Hispanic Residents of Chelsea.

Paul D. Wilson (Howard L. Greenspan & E. Peter Parker with him) for Trustees of Boston University & others.

Bruce A. Miller, of Michigan, & Jeffrey S. Jacobsen, for Paul Devlin & others, were present but did not argue.

Kristen Reasoner Apgar, for the city of Chelsea, joined in a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

In the spring of 1989, Boston University (university) and the School Committee of Chelsea (school committee) entered into an agreement whereby the university would participate in managing the Chelsea public school system. Pursuant to a clause in the agreement, its validity was contingent on the Chelsea board of aldermen and the Legislature's approving a home rule petition authorizing the arrangement. Art. 89, § 1, of the Amendments to the Massachusetts...

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