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...plan, proposed last week by school committee member Alan C. Price, who withdrew the plan himself, was a response to a series of merger proposals put forth by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro to combat declining enrollment and a budget deficit of $3.6 million across the system...
Parent Andy Hammond, who circulated a petition that called for inspection of the proceedings of the school committee by an outside body, pointedly accused D’Alessandro of bungling the merger process...
...latest proposal was presented by committee member Alan C. Price in response to what he called the “inadequacy” of previous plans brought forth by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro...
...have to have a vote,” D’Alessandro said...
Citing school under-enrollment and a $1.7 million budget deficit, Cambridge Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro announced a plan earlier this month to merge three elementary schools as soon as next year. Students would be relocated to new schools, about 20 teachers would lose their positions and vacant buildings would be used to house other city offices. While such a scenario is by no means ideal, the school committee should endorse D’Alessandro’s proposal. School closings and relatively low staff cuts are far less severe than directly slashing school department funds...