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...conservative Independent and the liberal Cambridge--Civic Association (CCA) councilors alike were troubled for the second straight meeting by a recent methane fire at the city dump, and called City Manager Robert W. Healy and Acting Public Works Commissioner Everett Kennedy before the council to give a report...
...Civic leaders, parents, teachers and school children gathered at the Webster School in Cambridge Saturday afternoon to rededicate the century old institution to two civil rights activists, Ross L. Parks and Cambridge City Councilor Saundra Graham...
Currently, popular support for public schools rarely solidifies into real results. The age-old Parent-Teacher Association offers one line, but ignores the interests of most of the community. Schools need broader organizations linking the support and input of business leaders, civic activists, school alumni, and neighborhood residents. Here, as elsewhere, public educators can learn from private schools that have traditionally mastered the art of tapping every potential vein of support, financial and otherwise. The importance of this link for public schools intensifies as a growing proportion of an ever-graying population loses parental ties to the schools. Already...
...groups have a stake in improving public schools. As private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
...abiding belief in a non-ideological liberalism. Liberals, he says, recognize the usefulness of both public and private institutions; but Starr expresses concern that currently, "the enthusiasm for the private sector is obscuring a lot of the ways in which public institution create a sense of civic life...