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...search was halted before citizens groups had a chance to interview the top candidates, and Frank J. Frisoli '35, the acting superintendent who had been in the Cambridge school system for over thirty years, became the new superintendent...
...liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) based its 1971 campaign on a pledge to fire Frisoli and reopen the nation-wide search for a new superintendent. The CCA won a majority on the school board, and after extensive citizen interviews of prospective superintendents, Alflorence Cheatham replaced Frisoli last fall...
...School Committee voted 4-3 to oust School Superintendent Frank Frisoli '35 who had served in the system for 33 years. The action touched off a protest that was especially intense in the City's ethnic neighborhoods...
Almost 17,000 residents signed petitions asking for a public referendum on Frisoli's firing. Although nearly 50 per cent of the voters who put the School Board in office were against the firing, the board voted to deny the referendum. Citizens for Frisoli filed suit against the mayor, but a country judge ruled that the ultimate power lay with the School Board and dismissed the case...
...this time, Ackermann and two popular Independents, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy, seem assured of re-election. Owens, who is certain to lose his CCA endorsement, and Frank H. Duehay '55 appear in trouble. Donald Fantini, an Independent member of the School Committee and an ardent Frisoli supporter, Leonard Russell, a three-time loser who trailed Duehay by only 36 votes the last time around, and Dom Christofaro of Cambridgeport should prove the strongest challengers...