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...scores. CPS spent an average of $13,363 per regular-education student last fiscal year, about $5,000 more than the national average. According to school officials, those numbers have risen to over $16,000 for this fiscal year. But despite this spending, Cambridge placed 253 out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. And it scored just slightly better—at 251—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam.Nolan’s interest in the system as a parent led her to become involved with Cambridge...
...woman spills coffee while juggling a cup of fruit. Park District workers tidy the large park, and police officers, mostly chatting among themselves, keep a careful eye on a crowd that is quickly swelling. The people here - mostly Hispanic, but whites and blacks as well - wear serious faces, but there is a sense that this is as much an event as a rally, as busloads of kids, large trucks and ordinary drivers whip by honking approval for a gathering that police expect to grow to some 300,000 in Chicago alone. Newspapers carrying the headline "Today We March, Tomorrow...
...Closer to 10 a.m., the crowd was pushing through the park, numbering a few hundred as they wait for the march to begin around noon. But not everyone was taking the day off to protest. Manuel Escelante, 46, a Honduran and Chicago Park District worker, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. ?I can?t leave my job,? he said, pointing to a line of leaves and rubbish left just outside the park?s wrought iron gates. ?This looks terrible. I?m with them, my heart, but I have...
Also in late September, a man posing as a taxi driver picked up two women on two separate occasions in Boston’s Financial District between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. The suspect drove the women to a parking lot near the Alewife T Station, where he allegedly sexually assaulted them. The suspect, linked by DNA, was arrested on October 9 in Augusta, Maine and is awaiting trial for the rapes...
Boston Public Schools Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning J. Chris Coxon said Payzant’s leadership has helped the school district improve...