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...some on Capitol Hill don't think a temporary measure goes far enough. On June 23, Florida Senator Bill Nelson and Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern introduced legislation, the Fairness to Surviving Spouses Act, that would nix the widow penalty for good. To leverage their message, they were joined by both Goukassian and another military widow, Diana Engstrom, whose husband was killed in Iraq in 2004 in a rocket-propelled-grenade attack. Engstrom, a Kosovo native, found out afterward that she, too, would be deported because she'd been married for less than the two years required for an immigrant spouse...
...School Committee member Marc C. McGovern said that Cambridge faces a host of challenges, including an achievement gap documented in the district’s standardized test scores...
...district of our size and with our resources, why we continue to have a percentage of our district struggle is beyond me. We haven’t figured it out yet,” McGovern said. “There have been many superintendents who have come here, who haven’t been able to figure it out. Hopefully [Young] will have the answer...
...McGovern said he thought Young would be a good fit because “he wants to be here.” Young will be taking a $30,000 pay cut to come to Cambridge...
...While McGovern agreed that the additional funding will be helpful, he also said that the district will need to address non-financial challenges in special education as well...