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...while Fowler-Finn admits that MCAS scores need improvement, he disputes claims that the school district is underperforming and cost-inefficient...
...says that student-faculty ratios in Cambridge are low and that the top half of students at CRLS are high achievers on the SAT. Part of the high cost, Fowler-Finn says, goes toward kindergarten and special education—which are not guaranteed at other Massachusetts schools...
Contrary to Fowler-Finn’s assertion, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88, whose research focuses on economics and education, says studies show that charter schools significantly outperform local district schools once they have been up and running for three to four years...
...Fowler-Finn’s other main critique of charter schools--—that they divert funding from the school district—is shared by Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who chairs the School Committee...
...Fowler-Finn] basically is saying that most of his costs are fixed. This is not true. Most of your costs are personnel costs,” Peterson says. “The percentage of children leaving the district to go to charter schools is a trivial number compared to the changes in demography every year...