Word: fantini
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...other side of the aisle, candidates are trying to gain a fifth seat for the independents. School Committee members Alfred B. Fantini and Timothy Toomey are both running, as is businessman Alan Bell. Generally, independents on the council vote as a bloc and favor tightening rent control restrictions...
...Fantini would not describe members' positions in full, but in the course of an interview, he said five members wanted to hurry the process and pick a superintendent by the next meeting on December 20, while he and member Timothy Toomey preferred putting off the decision until January...
...also said members favoring McGrath were reluctant to spend time in Ithaca or Sacramento on "site visits" to evaluate the other two candidates. And Fantini said Rafferty, Toomey and Vellucci were all reluctant to make site visits...
...addition to meeting those needs, McGrath said her priorities would include "opportunities for teacher renewal," increased parent involvement and reducing the dropout rate, especially among members of minority groups and people whose first language is not English. According to Fantini, Cambridge has a dropout rate of 38 percent...
...Fantini said the vote would be a difficult one for him. As a lifelong Cambridge resident, he said, "I believe in in-house candidates and coming up through the ranks." But he added that in the next 15 years, the city schools "will be challenged like no other school system has been in the country...