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...have a lot of deep ties to the community,” Maher said in a lengthy telephone interview Wednesday night, occasionally interrupting it to answer the door for trick-or-treaters. “I completely understand the desire of residents to not spend foolishly, to be accountable, to commit to excellence in programming—those are all progressive things...
...Maher’s top priorities is reinvigorating the public’s faith in the Cambridge Public Schools System. Maher cites recent change at the Tobin Elementary School in West Cambridge—just a few blocks away from Appleton Street, where Maher now lives and the area where he grew up—as an important story for the city’s public school system...
...response to input from parents and administrators, Tobin started a Montessori program this year, emphasizing self-directed activity on the part of students. Maher says that enrollment at the school reversed its downward trend and increased to the point that there is now a waiting list...
...What is it going to take to get people’s confidence back?” Maher asks, referring to the relatively high percentage of poor and minority students that, he says, has given the Cambridge schools an unfairly low reputation among some local residents. “You listen to what parents say, you look at the educational leaders are saying, and you offer programs that people want...
...time mediating things—he brings a voice of reason,” says former City Councillor Sheila T. Russell, who collaborated with Maher when he served on the Cambridge School Committee in the 1990s...