Word: alessandro
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Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, whose contract will lapse after this summer, had urged the committee last night to ratify her recommendation, which would address the district’s growing problem of half-used classrooms...
...Alessandro had offered the plan as the latest in a series of proposals to merge or close several of the city’s 15 elementary schools in order to close a $2.6 budget deficit...
Several committee members said they were surprised by the councillors’ criticisms, and D’Alessandro said their objections went against earlier city council mandates...
...puts us in a very significant situation with the budget,” D’Alessandro said. “I was disappointed in the city council...
Although students from the Harrington and Fitzgerald Schools will receive what D’Alessandro calls “priority transfer rights” to move to any school within the district—which operates under a choice system for elementary school placement that balances for race and socioeconomic status—parents worry that the student bodies would be broken...