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After almost two years of debate regarding his contract extension, the Cambridge School Committee voted Tuesday night to replace Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn—who has been at the helm of the district for five years—by next July...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Superintendent To Depart in 2009 | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

When Thomas D. Fowler-Finn arrived in Cambridge in 2003 to serve as superintendent of the city’s public school system, the district had been losing nearly 100 or more students annually, and the city’s only public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRLS), was on probation for failing to meet state standards. Re-orienting the system’s focus in order to improve performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) would not prove easy.“A teacher stood up at a meeting and said...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minding the Achievement Gap | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...first time, I realized he is an litist.' MAYHILL FOWLER, blogger for OffTheBus.net who first reported on Barack Obama's comment at a San Francisco fund raiser that economic frustrations have made small-town Pennsylvania voters "bitter" and driven them to "cling to guns or religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

Cantabrigian Laurence Atkins implored the school committee and Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, as he has done in previous meetings, to present the public with the “Student Data Report...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Committee Stalled | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...unique about our district is that it has just one high school,” said Committee Member Albert B. Fantini. “Other cities can experiment with one of their many high schools.” Other individuals present, such as Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, called into question the IB’s track record. He cited a public school in Berkeley, Calif. that has recently implemented the program and has seen racial disparities in enrollment. “Their IB program has more white and ‘paid-lunch’ kids...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IB Possible for Local Schools | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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