Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incumbent School Committee members said panel members have succeeded in forging compromises between Cambridge Civic Association [CCA] and Independent members...
...candidates for the School Committee's six seats, eight contenders are on a slate endorsed by the CCA. Five Independents are also running on separate platforms...
...CCA candidates said the most divisive issue is that of parent evaluation of teachers, but other issues are at the top of the Independents' list. CCA President Jack Martinelli said his organization wants to make parent comments a formal part of the teacher evaluation process--although such a move is banned by the teachers' current contract...
...CCA's Marzilli counters that "those old, large families aren't so large any more." He says that while their grandparents' generation fades, young voters are moving out of Cambridge ethnic neighborhoods into suburbs with lower rents...
...CCA-endorsed candidates tend to run citywide campaigns. Incumbent David E. Sullivan, the most vocal champion of rent control, spent the summer recruiting "captains" in rent-controlled buildings to campaign among tenants and register them to vote...