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...Cambridge, white students consistently outperform minority students on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. Last year, 62 percent of the district??s white seventh graders, compared to only 18 percent of black seventh graders, scored “proficient” or “advanced” in math. And while 79 percent of white seventh graders scored proficient or advanced in English language arts, only 44 percent of their black counterparts met those standards...
Especially in the current economic climate, the district??s budget has also emerged as a primary area of focus for the prospective school committee members...
Tauber, who co-chaired the district??s budget committee last year, said that she believes this spending needs extensive review...
...financial issues, Nolan’s record as a school-committee member has been exemplary. She has developed a sophisticated understanding of the district??s finances and has pushed for cutting central administration spending and redirecting it to classrooms. Early in her tenure, she sponsored a proposal to reclassify the district??s surplus money as discretionary funds for principals—an effort to see the dollars spent in the schools—but it received only the votes of Nolan and committee member Luc D. Schuster, who is not seeking reelection. Her intimacy with...
...second consecutive year, the Cambridge district??s test scores fell below the state target...