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Ever since the plan was unveiled last week, the Fitz has been up in arms that the school district might cancel its educational program to make way for another school’s approach...
Tonight’s meeting will culminate months of wrangling over how to consolidate Cambridge’s unwieldy array of 15 elementary schools, balance a $2.6 million deficit and fill hundreds of empty classroom seats. The committee has scrapped more than a half-dozen merger plans already, and district administrators proposed this one as their best offer...
...will also cap district leaders’ efforts to come to terms with a problem they had long brushed aside—the need for drastic action on elementary schools to combat years of declining enrollment...
...most people's memories until last January, when Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and rapist serving a 33-years-to-life sentence, confessed that he alone had raped the jogger. Citing new DNA evidence that corroborated Reyes' involvement in the crime and noting discrepancies in the earlier confessions, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau last week asked a judge to throw out the convictions of the five men. District Judge Charles J. Tejada is expected to rule in their favor, opening the door for the five to file civil lawsuits. But whatever he does will undo little. The last...
Police and prosecutors who worked the case, including Linda Fairstein, former chief of the district attorney's sex-crimes unit, concede that the DNA evidence proves Reyes raped the jogger, whose identity is still being shielded, though she will reveal it when she publishes a book about her experience next year. But Fairstein continues to insist that the new evidence "does not exonerate the other five, who by their own admissions participated in her attack by holding her down and striking her to the ground." Reyes, now 31, said he was moved to admit his guilt after witnessing the hard...