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...MAPC President Franklin Flaschner, defending the EMRPP study, said last night that he was "reasonably confident that some sort of review" of the Belt had been made. The technical staff of the EMRPP project were not available for comment...
...latest entry into the vocational school brag-bag is A-200, a field-study course in the Harvard School of Education mostly for students getting doctorates in school administration. A-200 has a contract with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), which is trying to force cooperation between different town governments within the Boston area to prepare for an eventual metropolitan system of vocational education. At the same time A-200 has a contract with Operation School House, another Ed School group that plans schools for the city of Boston, to write the specifications for a new vocational high school...
With this joint contract, the A-200 students initially hoped to get Operation Schoolhouse to think about metropolitan vocational training, while helping MAPC get a concrete focus for efforts at regional cooperation. But the contradictory demands of the two contractors have forced the students in A-200 to split into two groups. By April Operation Schoolhouse wants comprehensive specifications for a vocational high school on a site already tentatively selected. But the outcome of the MAPC research may be that Boston needs a scattered series of schools, or that Boston should construct its job training programs in conjunction with other...
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