Word: alessandro
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...Alessandro offered a bolder solution that would have ended the city’s long-standing devotion to a system where elementary schools teach students from kindergarten through eighth grade...
Future hearings on the plan were cancelled and committee members requested that she draft a new merger recommendation. D’Alessandro said she might return as early as tomorrow with a new proposal...
According to D’Alessandro, the set of mergers she proposed last week would have saved $2.7 million in fiscal year...
...Alessandro insisted that creating middle schools would strengthen education by allowing teachers and administrators to focus on elementary school and middle school students separately. Specialists would help prepare middle school students for high school, she said...
...This was all about equity for all kids,” D’Alessandro said. “I knew it would be controversial, but it needed to come out and we needed to talk...