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Although Cambridge students score below the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the city was chosen as having America's "best school committee," the National Education Association (NEA) announced publicly last week...
...Cambridge school committee is just one of many school boards throughout the country that is setting education policy in a way that supports teachers and other school staff," states a report in the January/February issue of NEA Today...
...Cambridge school committee members focus their efforts on a rational review of policy issues. They resist the temptation to get bogged down in personalities-or the quick-fix school reform proposals trumpeted by ambitious states and national politicians," continues the report by the NEA, which is the nation's largest teachers' union...
Students' scores on national tests had no bearing on the NEA's decision of best school committee, according to the report...
Going to school in Cambridge is getting better all the time. The Cambridge School Board was named "the best school board in America," by the National Education Association's newspaper NEA Today...