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...plan marks the last major restructuring effort by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, whose rocky tenure has already seen the contentious merger of two elementary schools and the reorganization of the city’s high school. Just a month ago, the school committee decided that it would let her contract lapse after this summer...
...first consolidation plan came last spring, when D’Alessandro presented an ambitious initiative that would have reshaped K-8 education in Cambridge by combining elementary schools and creating the district’s first middle school program. But after only a few minutes of discussion, the committee rejected the plan and sent D’Alessandro back to the drawing board...
This fall, D’Alessandro has trotted out several other plans, each one targeting a different slate of schools and drawing crowds of picketing parents. Even Price submitted a drastic plan of his own, which he withdrew after vehement criticism...
...million budget deficit and decades of declining enrollment mean that at least two Cambridge elementary schools have to close, and it’s not an easy decision for the beleaguered school board and the district’s lame-duck superintendent, Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, to make. One way or another, someone’s beloved neighborhood school will get the axe, and probably one of the valuable Amigos and Ola bilingual programs (in Spanish and Portuguese, respectively) along with it. The latest proposal, from the outgoing superintendent, is the best option to close the school board?...
...This decision should have been made a year ago,” D’Alessandro said. “We didn’t have the will to do it. I hope this is a legacy...