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...Kelley has seized on this issue in his first five months on the council. In the midst of a debate on the school system’s $125-million budget last month, Kelley demanded to know why the system was “hemorrhaging students” even as the city continued to “throw money?...
...Kelley faces an uphill battle as he tries to bring his colleagues on board. He cast the only vote against the city’s budget, which included the allocation of funds for the schools...
...It’s clear that Kelley does not have all the answers—nor does he profess to. He says his job is “to raise the questions that no one else is,” and to try to understand why families are losing faith in Cambridge’s public education system...
...It’s not going to be easy to fix this,” Kelley says, “but if we can’t make public education work here, there is no hope for public education in a diverse, urban environment anywhere...
...Just after 8 a.m. now, the coffee shop is starting to fill up, our cups are nearly empty, and Kelley suddenly realizes that I had taken the decaf and he had guzzled the real stuff...