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...late-night shooting at the corner of Franklin and Putnam Avenues, one block east of Mather House, left no one hurt and police searching for the perpetrator, according to Cambridge Police Department (CPD) spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello...
...some words of exchange with a group of people he knew [in the car],” Pasquarello said. “He followed them to Putnam and Franklin...
...idea that because individual Americans died, 9/11 - whether as image, event or political issue - is outside the public domain is absurd. By that logic, Franklin Roosevelt would have been prevented from invoking Pearl Harbor in his 1944 re-election campaign. In fact, he not only invoked it many times ("The American people are not panicked easily," he said in a White House radio address just five days before the election. "Pearl Harbor proved that") but visited Pearl in July 1944, at the very kickoff of his campaign...
...what some educators see as a hopeful sign of flexibility, the U.S. Department of Education announced last week that the scores of immigrant kids in their first year at a U.S. school no longer must be counted. The No Child law also allows some of Franklin's learning-disabled kids to take the test with special accommodations like extra time. But it permits only 1% of the district's kids to take an alternate test--even though 14% are special ed. Children at the upper margin may also suffer. Activities for the gifted and talented have not been...
Like all schools, Franklin must hit 100% proficiency by the 2013-14 school year. And each mandated improvement in between is based on comparing different classes, not on watching how the same students develop over time. "Our biggest fear [is], how do we sustain the growth? Can we jump up to the next level? I'm not sure," says Muscatine superintendent Tom Williams. Muscatine's 11 schools were receiving about $750,000 in federal money, and that increased to $850,000 with the new law. But state and local tax money pays the remaining 98% of the budget...