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...Although his appointment as superintendent was met with controversy when the School Committee passed over Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk—a black woman and longtime leader in the district??for the position, Young will likely enjoy an early honeymoon, with even some of Turk’s backers expecting tremendous results from...
...earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and joined the Lynnfield Public Schools in 1988, eventually serving as the district??s superintendent before moving on to Lexington and then Newton, the community he had lived in for over 30 years. The Newton district, the ninth largest in the state, serves approximately 11,500 students, or nearly twice as many as Cambridge...
...Young said that one of his most significant accomplishments in Newton was his effort to guarantee academic excellence in all of the schools across the city. The challenge, he said, was standardizing the district??s curriculum without inhibiting teachers’ creativity...
...according to Justin T. Martin, a spokesman for the Cambridge Public Schools. He added that four students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School—the city’s only public high school—have displayed “flu-like symptoms.” The school district??s Chief Operating Officer, Jim Maloney, said that shutting down King Open School, which is a K-8 school, was not necessary. “The guidelines from CDC are that we don’t need to shut down the schools,” he said...
...recommendations issued by the Dowling Committee, which was charged last spring with reviewing student governance and issued a report this March proposing reforms. This legislation, which adopts some of the Dowling Committee’s suggestions with respect to UC internal structure, raises the number of Council representatives per district??Houses for upperclassmen and clusters of dormitories for freshmen—from two to three. “The Council will be doing more because we’ll have a third rep per district,” said UC Parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen...