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...father of two boys who attend the Baldwin School in Agassiz, Kelley has staked out a role as a cheerleader for public education and a critic of the district’s administration...
...Kelley urged School Committee members to send invitations for school productions to the parents of children in the city’s primary schools. This sort of initiative, he said, could help the city stem its enrollment decline by letting parents and students see what awaited them in high school...
...leadership at the top has been lacking,” Kelley says. Last summer, Kelley urged the School Committee not to renew the current superintendent’s contract, but he says that when the issue comes up again in February 2008, he won’t take a public stand...
...Even so, Kelley has endorsed freshman School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, the superintendent’s strongest critic on the committee. She was the only member to meet him to hear his concerns about the school district’s budget, he notes...
...While Kelley says his first priority is to “bring people together,” his colleagues say he has been far from a unifying force over the past two years...