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...Fowler-Finn had compared the 59 percent statewide four-year graduation rate for black males to a 91 percent rate for the same demographic in Cambridge Public Schools. His budget presentation cited this data as indicative of progress in the “continuing goal” of narrowing the achievement...
Cambridge Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn criticized Massachusetts’ standardized testing regime for making it difficult for the school system to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The superintendent’s comments at a School Committee meeting yesterday highlighted the conflicting and often-incongruent evaluation schemes imposed by the state and federal governments. All Massachusetts high school students are required to take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and pass both sections—English Language Arts and Mathematics—in order to graduate. The flaw in the MCAS...
...points from 2006. While the data also showed some disparity in graduation rates by race, the direction of the gap was actually the reverse of the gap on standardized tests: 92 percent of black seniors graduated in 2007, compared to 87 percent of whites. Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, who narrowly won a controversial extension to his contract last week, was quick to highlight positive change enacted since he took on the job in 2003. “Five years ago, students came to school in September and didn’t even have a course schedule...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin, the city’s only public high school, posted a 20-point increase in its English test scores and a 19-point increase in mathematics—results that have caused many in the community to rally behind Fowler-Finn...
This is not the first time that Fowler-Finn has split the committee...