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Friday’s slate of interviews came five months after the committee fired Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, claiming that she had not moved quickly enough to address the schools’ wide disparity in performance along race and class lines—the so-called “achievement gap”—and that she failed to communicate adequately with parents and teachers...
...Bach—who wore a purple suit reminiscent of the bright colors D’Alessandro often sported—seemed acutely aware of district’s organization...
...committee fired Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro in November, saying she had failed to communicate adequately with the community about the consolidation plans she proposed. The committee hired her deputy, Carolyn Turk, to serve as interim superintendent of schools while the committee searches for a permanent replacement...
Others say that Turk and her administrative team have succeeded in communicating with parents where D’Alessandro failed...
...Carolyn Turk and [Cambridge Public Schools Chief Operating Officer] Jim Maloney have run a much more open process than Bobbie ever did,” Andrews says. “The plan itself tries a lot harder than a lot of the D’Alessandro plans to explain what it’s about. For some parents that does tend to calm them down...