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...what is shaping up to be the most intense education battle in Cambridge this year, four School Committee members have taken on Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Principal Paula M. Evans over parental choice within the city's only public high school--and the furor that followed has caught all involved off-guard...
...surprise move late last Tuesday night, the School Committee voted four to three to reject a proposal by CRLS administrators to continue a new policy--established just this year--that leaves parent choice out of the equation when placing incoming ninth-graders in CRLS' five "small school" learning communities...
Lividoti says the current system isn't ideal but has one major advantage: It means vo-tech courses attract many students. The vo-tech department can boast that more than half of CRLS' students take its courses, even though few of them are there to learn a trade for career purposes...
...When CRLS was restructured this fall, students and teachers were divided up into five small schools. And that meant breaking up the vo-tech teachers, who previously had worked together...
That's not the system that vo-tech teachers had wanted. They thought that vocational teachers could remain together and offer technical arts classes to all students at CRLS...