Word: dixons
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Describing the city’s current Affordable Housing Trust Fund as “weak,” Dixon advocates the creation of an endowment which would provide greater funding for housing initiatives. Under Dixon’s proposal, income from the endowment would be used to support mortgages for first-time home buyers...
...Dixon, who was home-schooled by his parents from kindergarten though high school and holds a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also has ideas for major changes in education...
...Dixon proposes that the City Council have greater control over education than the current state Proposition 2 1/2 requires. Instead of having the City Council simply approve or reject the School Committee’s budget, Dixon says he wants the council to be able to amend the school budget...
With the recent restructuring of Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRLS), for example, Dixon says the School Committee has not gotten the job done...
...Dixon proposes creating several public high schools out of CRLS. Dixon says Cambridge should have a high school offering a classics curriculum including Latin and ancient Greek, one with a science-focused curriculum that would include the involvement of professors at Harvard and MIT, a high school for the performing arts, and at least one high school specializing in vocational education...