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...planned merger of the Fletcher and Maynard elementary schools is approved, the new school will be in a new or renovated facility and its principal will have broad authority to choose a new staff. Committee members said this would be an opportunity to increase the number of minority teachers at that school...
...talk about improving the building, we need to go out and seek teachers that reflect the [Fletcher-Maynard] demographic," said Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, who is also chair of the school committee...
Although the Cambridge School Committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the union of the Fletcher and Maynard elementary schools, city officials have yet to determine how the new school facility will be funded, officials said...
...merger "will keep a school in Area Four and create a school with attractions for white children," said D'Alessandro, referring to the Cambridge neighborhood where the Fletcher and Maynard are located, which has a higher minority population than some other areas of the city...
Committee members were divided on whether or not to send the proposal to the Fletcher and Maynard school councils--parents' associations, that is--to seek parental approval of the merger before the school committee gives its final approval of the merger...