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After initial estimates placed the costs for restructuring Cambridge and Latin School (CRLS) at $700,000 in Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro's budget last week , CRLS officials are now pushing for $450,000 in additional funding. And while they say the additional funding is crucial, they have yet to pinpoint where the money will come from...
...Alessandro has given assurances she can initiate "creative" ways to increase funding, but many school committee members have expressed public concern about the proposed funding--and why there were not told earlier about...
...CRLS budget committee sent the request for additional funding to D'Alessandro more than three weeks...
...Alessandro said she expects more parents to refuse this year than last and is concerned about state policy that counts students who didn't take the MCAS as having failed the test...
...Alessandro said the district keeps its own MCAS statistics--which account for students who didn't take the exam--to measure the progress of elementary schools' improvement plans...