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Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, whose contract will lapse after this summer, had urged the committee last night to ratify her recommendation, which would address the district??s growing problem of half-used classrooms...
Committee member Alice L. Turkel proposed a compromise measure to close just the Harrington School, saying inaction on the merger question would threaten the district??s credibility...
...first consolidation plan came last spring, when D’Alessandro presented an ambitious initiative that would have reshaped K-8 education in Cambridge by combining elementary schools and creating the district??s first middle school program. But after only a few minutes of discussion, the committee rejected the plan and sent D’Alessandro back to the drawing board...
...district??s principals signed onto the latest plan in theory, agreeing that two elementary schools should close, though they left the choice of which schools up to D’Alessandro...
Although students from the Harrington and Fitzgerald Schools will receive what D’Alessandro calls “priority transfer rights” to move to any school within the district??which operates under a choice system for elementary school placement that balances for race and socioeconomic status—parents worry that the student bodies would be broken...