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Other signatories include Fletcher University professor Cornel R. West '74, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and Professor of Law Lani Guinier...
...Fletcher and Maynard are both located in Area Four, the Cambridge neighborhood with the highest proportion of black and Latino residents. That has meant busing many students from Area Four to other schools that would otherwise have too many white students...
Exempting the merged school from the racial quotas will allow the siblings of students who currently attend the two schools to be accepted unconditionally into the new school. Since more black and Latino siblings have been bused to other schools, letting them come to the merged Fletcher-Maynard school would upset the racial balance...
Curricula at the Fletcher and Maynard schools are currently developed by individual teachers. The merged school will use a standardized curriculum, broadly grouped under four programs: the ATLAS community, the Core Knowledge curriculum, the Literacy Collaborative and the NetSchools program...
...Alessandro said she believes the changes in curriculum will improve test scores at the merged school. Fletcher and Maynard students generally score below district averages on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Commonwealth's battery of standardized tests...