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Cambridge spends nearly $17,000 per student in its school district??€”more money than any other district in the state—but most Cambridge students score poorly on the state-mandated MCAS tests, and as many as one-third of high school sophomores regularly fail parts of the MCAS, putting them in danger of not receiving their diplomas...
...more media attention during the campaign, however, both for the fireworks among Lynch (who received 40 percent of the vote), Jacques (28 percent), State Sen. Brian Joyce (16 percent) and State Sen. Marc Pacheco (14 percent), and because its winner is expected to triumph in the heavily Democratic district??€™s November general election. The winner of that contest will take over the seat formerly held by beloved Congressman J. Joseph Moakley, Jr., who died of leukemia last spring...
Faced with the statistics that the majority of the district??€™s pro-choice voters have favored Lynch in polls, McQuilken said that those voters don’t know of Lynch’s pro-life stand. But McQuilken maintained a stoic optimism, saying that tomorrow Jacques will be holding “a really rocking victory party...
...stake is more than just a congressional seat—but the identity of one of Boston’s most storied neighborhoods. Only one candidate, State Sen. Stephen F. Lynch (D), lives in Southie. All the rest of the candidates live in the district??€™s suburbs outside Boston...
...Connor agrees with Clark that the district??€™s changing face will benefit Lynch. However, Lynch will need to raise his visibility beyond Southie in order to appeal to suburban towns in the district. Likewise, Joyce will need to engage voters outside his suburban base of Milton...