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...their only scheduled debate of the campaign, candidates for the Cambridge School Committee clashed last night on the fiscal management of the city’s schools, differing over whether the district overspends on administration and whether parents are getting enough bang for the buck...
...classroom, committee member Joseph G. Grassi said that 82 percent of all funds are spent on instruction. And when asked whether the schools are making good use of their $23,000 in per pupil expenditures—more than double the state average—Grassi boasted that the district chooses to make free many programs that other districts do not, such as all-day kindergarten, busing, and sports...
...Nolan, Schuster, and former committee member Marc McGovern said the survey should have interviewed those who have never sent their kids to the public schools. But Grassi, Fantini, and committee member Richard Harding said they were more concerned with those in the district than with parents who had always opted for private education...
After the collapse of a Minneapolis highway bridge that killed 13 people in August, critics lashed out at the lack of federal spending on basic infrastructure maintenance. Remarkably, Congress nonetheless plans to earmark more than $2 billion in the transportation-appropriations bill for frivolous home-district projects. Here's a plate of pork projects from the bill's House and Senate versions that won't make our roads any safer...
...year, more than is spent annually on computers and books combined. Green schools can also inculcate green values in students at an impressionable age. "We are in the process of developing a generation of kids who are environmental actors," says Rose Ellis, superintendent of the Williamstown School District in Massachusetts, which features a sustainable primary school...