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With the new "High School Redesign" process championed by Mayor Anthony Galluccio that began last spring, we have seen a potential for better results for all students at CRLS. Among other changes implemented this year, students were assigned through a semi-random process to the different schools rather than allowed to choose among them, and the schools' curricula and teaching staff were standardized. This move increased the diversity of the students, both racially and with regard to achievement level, ending the segregation of more academically talented students in certain schools away from the general high school population. This positive step...
...order to keep these small schools successful, CRLS principal Paula Evans should work diligently to change preconceptions about the schools' past history. Each school should provide an equal college preparatory curriculum as mandated by the state, so that each student will have the opportunity to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test in order to graduate...
...reforms put in place over the last year have done much to improve the learning environment of CRLS. If CRLS can continue to reform, retaining the successful aspects of the small schools yet eliminating the barriers between students that they traditionally imposed--if it can thoughtfully maintain quality as well as equality--its students will be well served...
Dispersing teachers among the five small schools will necessarily dilute the strengths of each. We believe CRLS should retain small homeroom and advising communities for students, but should not limit their course choices by school. This way, students who wish to take a primarily vocational (or college preparatory) program will still be able...
More importantly, there is no reason to believe that small academic groups within CRLS would make it any easier for high school students to find their own niche. If anything, it might be more difficult for students to meet fellow classmates who share similar interests and passions if the five schools are kept separate...