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Superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn unveiled a budget for next year that will add a host of new programs but will rise just 1.86 percent, continuing a recent trend of modest increases to the district’s budget...
...This is the first time as far as people can remember that we have had a less than two-percent increase in the budget for three years in a row,” Fowler-Finn said in a presentation to the committee...
Several expenses, including wages, energy costs, transportation costs, and health insurance, will swell at an even higher rate, Fowler-Finn said...
...physics and government departments this semester. They will receive both high school and college credit for their work. Previously, high school students had only been eligible to take classes at the Extension School, for which did not get high school credit, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. In order to enroll in College classes, students must submit a special application to Harvard; once accepted, they can take classes for free, he said. According to Harvard’s Associate Director of Community Relations Mary Ann Jarvis, the opportunity has existed as an informal arrangement...
...Committee meeting last night developed into a battle over whether the district should give schools more money to spend on broadly defined improvement measures. A motion put forward by rookie committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc Schuster recommended that Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn reallocate approximately $1.5 million of the district’s 2007-2008 budget to the school improvement funds of Cambridge’s 13 public schools. “This is crazy, it’s like ‘Groundhog Day.’ Every year...