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Soon after she took office, D’Alessandro revamped the district’s failing technical arts program and led a controversial redesign of the high school meant to even discrepancies among its five small schools...
...each point, D’Alessandro assembled a temporary coalition of supporters, but gradually her relations with the people who run the schools—not just the school committee but the vocal parents it answers to—deteriorated...
...weeks, hundreds of parents have turned out at committee meetings to protest the merger proposals. They used hours of the public comment periods to complain they had not been notified of changes that would affect their schools. Some had gone as far as to suggest that D’Alessandro be fired...
Alfred B. Fantini, who cast the lone vote for D’Alessandro last week, says recent events contributed to the committee’s decision to call it quits with the current superintendent...
...enters her final months, D’Alessandro has already begun to follow a committee mandate that she involve families, administrators and school council members in brainstorming for a revised merger plan...