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...Cambridge School Committee met publicly tonight for just nine minutes before it adjourned to executive session in order to discuss extending the tenure of Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn, who has led the Cambridge Public Schools since...
...Moschos, said that the superintendent’s current contract will not be renewed but that the committee has decided to negotiate a new contract. According to several unnamed school system officials quoted in The Boston Globe yesterday, the committee is trying to negotiate a new contract with Fowler-Finn that would expire in August 2008, a one-year extension on his tenure...
...Despite the broad scale improvement of all subgroups, the Asian students improved 9 points in [English Language Arts (ELA)] versus a 1 point improvement for the lowest scoring group, special education students,” Fowler-Finn wrote in an e-mail...
Test scores did decline in some subgroups between 2004 and 2005, as Nolan says, and overall ELA test scores declined by one point. Fowler-Finn attributes this to the fact that the state changed its tests between 2004 and 2005, and notes that the entire state’s average also declined by one point...
...Fowler-Finn has compared the Cambridge Public Schools to an “ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...