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MARLBOROUGH--As he jogged down Main Street during last week's Labor Day Parade, Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci was approached by an aide who informed him that he had missed shaking hands with one of his "biggest supporters...
...Board of Education lowered the test standards so that more students could pass. Then, at the delayed prompting of Gov. A. Paul Cellucci (fully aware of possible election-year fallout should he not take action), it reconvened to restore the scoring system to its original, more rigorous level. The interim commissioner of the board, Frank Haydu, a proponent of the lower standards, resigned last week, rather than face more interference from the governor and Board of Education Chair John Silber...
...most of all, I wince when I hear the politicians and pseudo-educators--Cellucci, Finneran and Silber chief among them--decry the test takers, the professors and the veteran teachers in a sad attempt to divert blame from a history of too-low education budgets and little attention to the decline of the public schools onto an easy target. Yes, I'm sad to find out that teachers are easy targets. Everyone's been to school, and many of us might not have liked some of the teachers we met there. On the other hand, none of us would...
...there is the generic accusation of incompetence, of ignorance, of failure. The words of Cellucci, Finneran and Silber may have been intended to strike fear into educators, to inspire change and improvement. But without the true commitment to education and the decency to inform the test-takers of their performance first before sharing it with the world, they have only done damage to what is, at its best, truly the most noble profession...
Lieutenant Governor A. Paul Cellucci frequently took over the reins of state government, and rarely heard from Weld, according to The Boston Globe...