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...School Committee, which is stocked more heavily with critics of the district??s controversial superintendent, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, voted in January to offer him a new contract, but voted again in May to limit the contract extension to just one year...
...information in this budget,” Kelley said. “I can’t put any of it in context.” He also said he was a “bit disappointed” in the lack of discussion on the implications of the district??s Parent Attitudes Study done last year. The results of the study, released in May of last year, reported that 32 percent of parents who withdrew their children from the Cambridge Public Schools system did so because of a perceived “lack of quality education/academics...
...takes 10 years.” Fowler-Finn has been serving as Cambridge public schools superintendent for four and a half years. Nolan said she didn’t feel the needs of the district have been adequately dealt with over the past years. “The district??s not where I think it should be,” she said after the meeting. Jack Haverty, a former teacher in the district and president of the Cambridge Teacher’s Association, said he approved of Fowler-Finn’s “serious?...
...responsibility to focus on student learning. While principals and teachers should aim as high as possible with regard to educating their children, maximizing their score on state tests should not be a priority. Unfortunately, many such admirable plans to localize curriculum planning may be limited by the school district??s budget concerns. This year’s budget is expected to exceed revenues, and will require about $2.8 million in cuts. This kind of shortfall is not unique to Cambridge; many municipalities in this state are short on money, and the state has provided little recourse...
...most outrageous roadblock to youth voting is that many college students’ votes come at an unfair price—a postage price to be exact. With the exception of residents of four states, students living outside of their registered district??many college students fall under this category—will be forced to pay postage on their absentee ballots. Only Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada and West Virginia pay the return address for an absentee ballot. So what’s the problem with the systems in the other 46 states? Confusion and ambiguity plague the process...