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Still, despite widespread support. Lannon stepped on a few toes in making his changes, and some of them belonged to members of the school committee, the group of six elected representatives and the Cambridge mayor which determines over all school department policy and appoints all personnel...
...Lannon was just using the city to climb in his political career," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, the leader of the anti-Lannon contingent. "He catered to certain constituencies, the powerful ones, and left the poorer neighborhoods to take care of themselves," Koocher adds...
...both supporters and opponents agree that Lannon was instrumental in the numerous structural and curricular reforms that made the Cambridge schools what spokesman Albert Giroux calls "a model for urban education in the rest of the country...
Another major accomplishment of Lannon's tenure was an extensive reorganization of the city's high school. After combining the students and faculty at the Rindge School and Latin School into a newly-constructed building on Broadway. Lannon started a series of programs to break the large student body, which comes from all 13 elementary schools, into smaller individual groups...
...zealous to non existent," says Koocher, adding that the involved parents tend to come from the upper-middle-class neighborhoods, where families are more education minded. "Our highest priority for the future should be seeing that all kids in the city get equal resources," Koocher says. Koocher has accused Lannon of catering only to certain influential parents...