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With questions still unanswered about how the district will pay for the merger of the Fletcher and Maynard elementary schools, which the committee approved three weeks ago, this role might be Galluccio's most important...
Exempting the merged school from the racial quotas will allow the siblings of students who currently attend the two schools to be accepted unconditionally into the new school. Since more black and Latino siblings have been bused to other schools, letting them come to the merged Fletcher-Maynard school would upset the racial balance...
...want the creation of a super-ghetto school," said Douglas Whitlow, a Maynard parent on the steering committee. He said he favors the effort to bring in more white students to the merged school...
Curricula at the Fletcher and Maynard schools are currently developed by individual teachers. The merged school will use a standardized curriculum, broadly grouped under four programs: the ATLAS community, the Core Knowledge curriculum, the Literacy Collaborative and the NetSchools program...
...Alessandro said she believes the changes in curriculum will improve test scores at the merged school. Fletcher and Maynard students generally score below district averages on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Commonwealth's battery of standardized tests...