Word: lannon
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Desegregation will come to Cambridge, one way or another, next fall. But school superintendent William Lannon's announcement last week that he had chosen redistricting as his method surprised much of the community and angered some residents and school board members...
Only three weeks ago, school committee members asked Lannon to go instead with "Plan B"--which would have paired city schools so students would attend kindergarten through third grade at one building and fourth through eighth grade at another...
...Lannon said last week he chose the redistricting--"Plan C"--because Plan B would make closing schools difficult if enrollment declined, and because a "re-evaluation of statistics" showed the pairing proposal might not work after...
...were afraid that we could do it, and that in five or six years the population would change enough that we'd have to go through the same thing all over," Lannon said...
Councilor David Wylie urged Lannon to make any budget cuts in non-academic areas...