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Cambridge’s acting affirmative action officer also released hiring data on the system last night, showing a general lack of change in the percentage of minority teachers district-wide...
Last night the committee also reconsidered the diversity plan which it uses to balance racial and socioeconomic demographics in its elementary schools. The district assigns students to schools based on race and socioeconomic status while giving as much choice as possible to parents...
When the committee voted to include socioeconomic status as a factor nearly two years ago, it projected that it would bring all of its schools to within five percent of the overall socioeconmoic balance of the district by this year...
...because of turmoil surrounding a plan that closed three of the system’s 15 elementary schools last year, newly-appointed Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn proposed waiting a year before bringing the district to the 5 percent standard...
...Given the great change that the district has experienced over the past year, now is not a time to change guidelines once again,” Fowler-Finn wrote in a letter to the committee...