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...Cambridge school system will be forced to lay off 384 of its 1267 employees next year if the tax-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 is fully implemented in the city, school superintendent William Lannon told the school committee last night...
...more freshmen stepped in to take the 440 for Harvard. Grace de Fries had a hair-raising debut as she struggled neck-and-neck against UNH's Ann Lannon, pulling ahead only in the final seconds to win. Freshman Lucy Ashwood contributed an impressive come-from-behind effort, rapidly passing four UNH runners to take third place...
...Local governments seem to be responding on their own to what they perceive as taxpayer resistance." Even with this year's big boost, budget season was unpleasant in Cambridge. "In one night I've wiped out every innovation I've introduced in the last five years," William Lannon, Cambridge superintendent of schools, said last spring after a final budget was approved...
...Under Lannon's proposal, the city is redistricted and then divided into three "educational zones." Students entering the system can be randomly assigned from one school in the zone to another, depending on the need for racial balance...
...Lannon and other school department officials have argued that redistricting alone would solve racial balance problems only temporarily and that population shifts would soon unbalance the system again unless the zone plan was in a place to allow random assignments of new students...