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Superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn unveiled a budget for next year that will add a host of new programs but will rise just 1.86 percent, continuing a recent trend of modest increases to the district??s budget...
Fowler-Finn’s presentation also highlighted the negative impact of charter schools on the district??s budget. Next year’s budget will suffer a $1.1 million loss due to Cambridge students leaving the district to attend those schools. Charter schools will cost the district $5 million over the next four years, Fowler-Finn projected...
...over whether the district should give schools more money to spend on broadly defined improvement measures. A motion put forward by rookie committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc Schuster recommended that Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn reallocate approximately $1.5 million of the district??s 2007-2008 budget to the school improvement funds of Cambridge’s 13 public schools. “This is crazy, it’s like ‘Groundhog Day.’ Every year we go through the same thing,” said...
Best “Better Know a District??: Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), Episode 123, July...
...performance to that of whites. Using the new CPI benchmarking system, the 2005-2006 report released last night shows that the minority-white achievement gaps are narrowing. The report recalculates the achievement gaps for previous years using the CPI method to make its estimations. Some of the district??s most significant gains for minority students were on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English language arts and mathematics exams, where African American students gained 16.4 points in English and 19.1 points in math, bringing their totals to 83.0 in English and 78.3 points in math. Similarly, Hispanic students...