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...activists like Carlson have a tough choice. They can either restrict development and make it impossible for anyone except financial-district Yuppies to buy a house or they can allow development and ensure that Cambridge grows larger and more dense but stays affordable and diverse. By choosing the latter, Cambridge residents are likely to do well by subdividing their land and redeveloping it, which will probably turn out to be as profitable or more so than strangling the local property market...
...benchmarks for learning are different. One of the wonderful aspects of Cambridge public school system is that we have schools that offer different teaching philosophies. What we need, however, is to set benchmarks that standardizes the skills that will be taught in each grade, so that children across the district are learning similar skills while still maintaining our elementary schools individual character...
...think I helped communicate with my colleagues and find a middle ground so that the consolidation could take place, our strongest schools could be supported, and the school district as a whole could move ahead with improvement efforts...
...align the School Improvement Plan to new benchmarks for improvement; to achieve full accreditation as soon as possible, to administer a climate survey to teachers and students and to plan for implementing a better schedule in 2005. He has also promised to improve the evaluation of teachers throughout the district...
...superintendent found a way in his previous district (Ft. Wayne, Indiana) to make progress closing the achievement gap in a school district with a variety of different types of schools... Also, if you want to attract the best teachers, you have to allow them some measure of creativity. On the other hand, we also need to make sure our elementary students arrive at our one high school with equivalent skills...