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...Cambridge School Committee ignored the issue of whether it will renew the contract of Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn and instead spent most of its time on “report card reform” during its meeting Tuesday. Even the educational audit by the Office of Educational Quality and Accountability (EQA)—which most agreed paints a worsening picture of student achievement—received only a few minutes of discussion...
Committee member Richard Harding and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 also said they were dissatisfied with the report, but Nancy Walser—Fowler-Finn’s chief booster—said that the audit contained positive signs. She pointed out that it showed Cambridge’s Hispanic students scoring above the state average...
...while the Committee did not directly address the Fowler-Finn contract—the 800-pound gorilla in the room—members either pitted themselves against his views on the issues or defended them...
Robert Winters, the proprietor of the online Cambridge Civic Journal, confronted Nolan at the end of the meeting, heatedly accusing her of “cherry-picking statistics” to “fit her agenda” of undermining Fowler-Finn. He did not specify which statistics painted a better picture of the district’s achievement...
...School Committee will meet next on July 18, though it is not clear if action will be taken then on Fowler-Finn’s contract. There are also discussions about having a closed executive session for the committee members July 25, one week after the public meeting on July...