Word: mergers
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...elementary merger plan passes tonight, it will intensify an emotionally charged battle waged by indignant parents, confused students and crying teachers. The Fitzgerald and the Harrington, another low-achieving neighborhood school, would close and their students would be scattered across the rest of the city. Two other, more successful schools would move into the vacant buildings...
Tonight’s meeting will culminate months of wrangling over how to consolidate Cambridge’s unwieldy array of 15 elementary schools, balance a $2.6 million deficit and fill hundreds of empty classroom seats. The committee has scrapped more than a half-dozen merger plans already, and district administrators proposed this one as their best offer...
...plan marks the last major restructuring effort by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, whose rocky tenure has already seen the contentious merger of two elementary schools and the reorganization of the city’s high school. Just a month ago, the school committee decided that it would let her contract lapse after this summer...
Despite the strained and prolonged discussion of the merger issue, Price says most Cambridge residents want more time before the committee takes action...
...Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran, which have filed formal complaints with the DOT. They claim that such alliances give too much market power to the large carriers and could drive smaller ones out of business and hurt consumers. Says Southwest CEO Jim Parker: "This alliance is really a de facto merger that is likely to result in less competition and higher prices." Airline observers are also concerned about how the DOT is reviewing the deal. Unusually, for a case with such large implications for U.S. travelers, the department has refused to open the matter fully for public consideration...