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After months of wrangling over proposals that would combine schools to save money and fill empty classroom seats, Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro for the first time proposed closing elementary schools outright, dismantling their administrations and discarding their educational programs...
...sterner stuff. Nor, despite his nickname, was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-92) the biggest patron of the clan. That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning...
...another new option, D’Alessandro proposed maintaining K-8 school system-wide, but merges the King and King Open Schools and the Peabody and Fitzgerald Schools. This plan is a modification of a one presented last month, which itself is still on the table...
With only two weeks left before the Cambridge school committee is set to vote on the consolidation of several of the city’s 15 elementary schools, Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro presented two new merger plans yesterday morning and resurrected one from last spring...
...fewer swords were drawn at yesterday morning’s meeting, the second in a series responding to a school committee mandate that D’Alessandro include parents and administrators in discussions of merger plans...