Word: alessandro
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Three months after the Cambridge School Committee voted not to extend her contract, Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro resigned Friday, ending her five-year tenure at the helm of the city’s public schools...
...Alessandro will leave at the end of the month to take charge of a $150 million research initiative on urban school leadership...
...position at the Newton, Mass.-based Educational Development Corporation, D’Alessandro will explore the working relationship between superintendents and school boards—the same issue that plagued her term in Cambridge...
...superintendent, D’Alessandro bolstered technical and special education and reorganized Cambridge’s high school to even out discrepancies in student performance among its five component schools. But she faced increasing opposition from parents and school committee members who claimed she did not work fast enough and pushed her own agenda over the demands of the community...
...have replaced cheetah-drawn chariots, and fewer revelers dress in snakes. Titian produced "some of the sexiest pictures that you will see anywhere," says Jaffé. He pushed "the envelope of how erotic you could go in a painting." Danaë, painted for Pope Paul III's grandson Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and using his girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus this was normal: he liked to dress...