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...dollars spent on nuclear weapons and programs of foreign military intervention? Since the victory of the referendum is non-binding, the Boston City Council can choose not to make any such suggestion to Congress. Likewise, even if the Council does send a formal letter to Washington, Congress may well dismiss or ignore the request. Election night coverage on television made no mention of the referendum; neither did the late stocks edition of The Boston Globe the following day. But despite the obscurity of the referendum, the question intimately affects the lives of everyone in Boston...
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...
Glenn S. Koocher '71 says there are only two main issues in this year's school board election for the Cambridge School Committee. The first centers around what Koocher calls "the fundamental differences" between Independent candidates and Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates on the issue of how to dismiss teachers...
Roxanne C. Leary considers the Cambridge School Committee's dispute with the Cambridge Teacher Association to be contractual matter: the school committee should honor the contract and dismiss teachers according to seniority alone...