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City officials said the proposed Cambridge Community Charter School would threaten the district’s schools by draining its students, stealing a portion of its funding and failing to allow the district to recover from a messy schools consolidation last year...
Last month, the State Board of Education invited the charter school to submit a formal charter proposal. But last night, the school committee voiced its opposition to the creation of the school and asked the board to reject the proposal...
...chance to run our high school,” said Cambridge Teachers Association President Paul Toner, who offered a scathing condemnation of the charter proposal at the beginning of last night’s meeting. “Nobody made her leave—she got frustrated and quit. This is Paula Evans’s sour grapes. In my opinion this is her getting back at the school committee...
Toner also said he feared that such a charter school—which aims to focus on science and technology—would draw mainly middle-class students, thereby reducing the much touted diversity at Cambridge’s high school...
...committee member Alfred B. Fantini said he was particularly worried that a new charter school would drain funds from the Cambridge Public Schools—siphoning off as much as $15,000 per pupil...