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...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...
Simmons cited increased enrollment, greater diversity among employees, the new Montessori school at the Tobin, and increases on standardized tests as major accomplishments during Fowler-Finn’s tenure...
...critics, however, say that test scores are not the only measure of a school’s success. Leslie T. DiTrani, who has children who attend Cambridge public schools, said she felt that Fowler-Finn’s emphasis on scores overlooked ongoing problems, such as the under-usage of neighboring universities’ resources and the ongoing achievement gap among low-income and minority students. In 2007, there was a 30 percent difference in scores between black and white students in English, and a 37 percent difference in Math...
Among the school community, Fowler-Finn’s leadership style was a divisive issue; both times that his contract has been renewed, it was by a four-to-three vote, with parents testifying for and against him, according to Schuster...
...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...