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This year, Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn and School Committee member Nancy K. Walser supported changing the target, while the others, led by Joseph G. Grassi and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, decided instead to increase the band—a solution that was deemed less threatening to the goal of maintaining desegregated schools...
During the debate last summer, Walser, Schuster, and veteran members Alfred B. Fantini and Joseph G. Grassi supported an extension of the contract. Nolan, Richard Harding, and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ‘71 voted against. (The mayor, chosen by the city council from among its ranks, chairs the School Committee...
...passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite a few of his works titles with the word your in them. So, for instance, when he hung the Palazzo Grassi in Venice with a web of light cables, he called it Your wave is. "It emphasizes the importance of the spectator," he says. "The relationship between you and the project is the project...
...Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a longtime critic of the district’s finances, countered Grassi by citing data from the Mass. Department of Education that show that only 29 percent of the district’s dollars are spent in the classroom. She added that Grassi’s figure was inflated by money spent on school-based administrators like deans...
...Nolan, Schuster, and former committee member Marc McGovern said the survey should have interviewed those who have never sent their kids to the public schools. But Grassi, Fantini, and committee member Richard Harding said they were more concerned with those in the district than with parents who had always opted for private education...