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This process was delayed by the sudden departure of then-Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn and the school committee’s resolution to table any decision-making about the issue until his successor was selected...
...chief Jeffrey M. Young—and, along with several of her colleagues, stood her ground against the many residents who evidently did not like that he is white and from the suburbs. The experienced and savvy Young possesses both the strong managerial skills of his predecessor, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, and the grace and consensus-building style of Fowler-Finn’s predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro. As Young makes controversial staffing and curricular decisions, as he surely will, it will be important that committee members are allies in promoting reform and not agents of obstruction...
...district. The city has no middle schools, but rather one K-6 school and eleven that are K-8, which feed into a single high school. The school committee was in the process of addressing the issue last year under the direction of former superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, but was interrupted when he “went to pursue other interests,” in the words of School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi. In the wake of Fowler-Finn’s departure, the school committee was considering candidates for the superintendency that would be particularly adroit...
...addition to the social consequences that low enrollments have for students, they also affect teachers’ experiences. Fowler-Finn said that some middle schools are so small that there are sometimes not enough students to warrant a full-time staff member for a specific subject, discouraging some of those part-time teachers from staying for long...
...number of schools are upset that they have had more turnover than they would like to see in their schools,” Fowler-Finn said at the Oct. 1 session about the options he presented for the district’s future course of action...