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...early last month. Although committee member Richard Harding said that there “is something lacking” in the current budget drafting process, he said changes to the budget should be introduced early, and he ultimately voted against the motion. The Cambridge Public Schools superintendent, Thomas Fowler-Finn, said he sympathized with the frustrations expressed by the two first-term committee members, Nolan and Schuster. “I do think it’s difficult for new members coming in in January,” he said, adding that the budget-drafting process requires...
...Square. While councillors and Healy unanimously expressed excitement about the possibility of purchasing the prime land, the city manager sparred with Councillor Craig A. Kelley when seeking the Council’s routine approval of funding for the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS). Healy, along with CPS Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn and other CPS representatives, presented the budget matters to the council for final approval. They had already been developed and approved by school officials and the School Committee in early March. The Committee had earmarked $450,000 for the School Debt Stabilization Fund, which will cushion the system...
...each school. But committee veterans criticized Nolan at last night’s CPS committee meeting for circumventing the budget planning that has consumed the board’s attention in the last weeks. “The timing is very unfortunate,” Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn said, “[The motion] comes as a total surprise—at a public hearing.” Nolan apologized for offending board members’ sense of procedure, but maintained that the motion contained ideas she had brought forth at previous meetings and should not come...
...plan calls for a hybrid middle school, which would move middle school students from the Tobin School to the Peabody School. The Tobin School suffers from low Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores, whereas the Peabody School suffers from declining enrollment, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. Under this plan, the Tobin School would continue only as a K-5 elementary school. Fowler-Finn said that allocating part of the $125 million district budget to the new hybrid middle school would allow for the implementation of an Intensive Studies Program (ISP) at the Peabody School. ISP, along...
...Fowler-Finn also noted that more time to mull over the proposal would aid the incoming principal’s transition...