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Rather than approve the recommendation--which culminated nearly six months of research by Principal Edward R. Harrison and longtime school teacher William Toomey--the board referred the bill to a joint meeting of the district's dropout prevention and school safety committees...
...dropout prevention program would have taken 15 recent dropouts from Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School and placed them in a separate school where they would receive individualized instruction, counseling and guidance, Harrison said...
Teachers, students and parents could then set goals for the children to reach during the school year. Students would also undergo special counseling designed to modify their attitudes towards school, he said. "The way to keep these kids in school is to develop a sense of community," Harrison said...
...program was designed, Harrison said, so that students would spend no more than one full year in the program before then being returned to the regular high school...
...objection raised by school committee members was that the program would offer only a limited science program. Although Harrison said students would perform science experiments, the proposal did not say whether they would receive course credit for their science work when they returned to Rindge and Latin...