Word: dismissed
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...says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
Another frightening possibility, Koocher said, is that CCA members would hold only a 4-3 majority on the new school committee, which--under school hoard guidelines--would not be enough to dismiss a tenured teacher. In this case, Koocher said, he committee would have a policy of minority teachers in the system but would have no way to dismiss other personnel, leaving the system with more teachers on its payroll than it would have funds...
Candidates for seats on the next school committee disagree among themselves about at sharply on the issue of how to dismiss teachers as the current school administration and the CTA. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) currently holds five seats on the seven member school board, and the five seats of the seven member school board, and the five candidates the progressive-oriented slate is fielding in tomorrow's election support affirmative action and disagree with strict seniority-based dismissal guidelines. The more conservative Independent candidates tend to back the stance of the teacher's union against preserving a minority teacher...
...school committee majority fights hard for good staff and teachers, Koocher added, the system's "standards of expertise" in teaching would be in jeopardy, a reference to the School Committee's ongoing dispute with the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) over which teachers to keep and which teachers to dismiss because of cuts in the budget...
...Korean War. Yao notes that while "the British, the Russians, the Japanese, have given China hell" over the past few centuries, the U.S. has been more friendly--except, of course, for the period which has spanned most of his life. That period, though, Yao is willing to dismiss: "an unfortunate episode," he calls it, but one which he hopes will not impede future friendly relations between the U.S. and his homeland...