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...Being a leader doesn't mean bashing everything all the time, and at the same time, being a leader doesn't mean being a cheerleader,” McGovern said, in probable reference to Nolan, a longtime critic of the school district's administration, and veteran committee member Nancy Walser, Fowler-Finn's strongest supporter...
...long-awaited report commissioned by the Cambridge School Committee to gauge parental attitudes toward the city's school system was released earlier this month, providing hard data to school district officials about parents' concerns and why some families have chosen to leave the public school system altogether...
...study, which was unveiled last month, is to help the school system diagnose and treat its declining enrollment, which has left district with 1314 fewer students, out of a total of 5673, over the past 5 years...
...School Committee roundtable on the enrollment decline last year, Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn and Cambridge Teachers Association President Paul Toner both pointed to the cost of housing as the principle cause of the enrollment decline, and in an interview in March 2006 school district spokesman Justin T. Martin claimed that "the main cause from all the information that we've seen has been the rising cost of housing in Cambridge...
Instead of drawing boundary lines to determine the student bodies of each of Cambridge's 12 primary schools—a process that many officials say would be too divisive and could lead to de facto segregation—the district allocates students using a plan, known as controlled-choice, that seeks to ensure that the schools are socioeconomically balanced...