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Cambridge public schools that failed to achieve the targets of No Child Left Behind could still be making progress, district officials said at a presentation to the city’s school committee last night. Maryann MacDonald, the executive director of student achievement and accountability, and superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, discussed the district’s results on the MCAS, the state’s standardized tests, highlighting both areas of improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state...
...part of an attempt to resolve the decades-old debate on the ideal structure for Cambridge’s middle schools, Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn offered parents the opportunity to communicate their concerns in two public input sessions this week. “This is to put to rest this whole hubbub,” Fowler-Finn told the audience on Wednesday night. The meetings were a result of the district’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Education, a formalized effort to study and improve the city’s middle...
...Fowler-Finn did not return calls for comment about his departure...
Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, who chairs the School Committee, said she found it understandable that Fowler-Finn would look for new opportunities...
...letter Fowler-Finn read to the School Committee, he did not specify his future plans . In a statement to The Cambridge Chronicle, he said only that he had “exciting plans” in store...