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...Cambridge School superintendent’s staff secretly accessed e-mails sent to the Cambridge Public School Committee, a group that oversees the superintendent, committee members disclosed on Friday. The incident adds fuel to an already contentious debate over the school leader’s contract.Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn issued a statement yesterday assuming responsibility for giving the two staff members access to e-mails from parents and citizens, and for failing to inform or solicit advice from the school committee. “I gave approval to the suggestion to add the names of two administrative staff...
...year at the Cambridge School Committee meeting last night drew a larger crowd and more comments, with residents, organization members, and a member of the city council in attendance. Though the budget had already been introduced at a meeting last month, the revised proposal presented by Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn received criticism from more quarters. Cambridge City Councilor Craig A. Kelley said that the budget proposal does not tell enough holistically about Cambridge public schools. “There’s a lot of information in this budget,” Kelley said. “I can?...
...finalized. “You must finish this contract,” said Walser, who served on the committee from 2000 to 2007. “It’s nearly April. A fourth of the year has gone by.” The length and nature of Thomas Fowler-Finn’s contract has been at the center of back-and-forth negotiations after he narrowly won a contract extension by a 4-3 school committee vote in January. The committee continued these negotiations in a private executive session after last night’s regular meeting. After...
...These are the most difficult budget circumstances faced in many, many years in Cambridge,” said Fowler-Finn at the beginning of his budget presentation...
...Fowler-Finn also remarked that the proposal will offer grants of 5,000 dollars to elementary school principals who develop their own curricula, adding that they should still keep the state standards as a “guiding force.” He later said that a majority of the principals have yet to express interest in applying for these grants...