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...financial issues, Nolan??s record as a school-committee member has been exemplary. She has developed a sophisticated understanding of the district’s finances and has pushed for cutting central administration spending and redirecting it to classrooms. Early in her tenure, she sponsored a proposal to reclassify the district’s surplus money as discretionary funds for principals—an effort to see the dollars spent in the schools—but it received only the votes of Nolan and committee member Luc D. Schuster, who is not seeking reelection. Her intimacy with...
...couple years,” committee member Patrica M. Nolan ’80 said. “We put the motion forward not to get an update on where we are but to move the district forward to address needs that are not currently met.” Nolan??s son, who is in middle school, currently takes geometry at the high school—an option she heard about only through hearsay. Nolan and other committee members said this should not be the case. “We need something institutionalized for kids who would benefit...
...issue with the data, saying that the methodology gave extra weight to some respondents’ opinions. “The only snafu that we had tonight was in tallying the responses,” said Luc D. Schuster, the co-chair of the superintendent search subcommittee and Nolan??s frequent ally. “The firm didn’t weight proportionally the number of respondents in each category.” Although Nolan requested more time to study the data presented by the consultants—an idea that initially was supported by some other members?...
...While Schuster continued to defend his resolution, veteran committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who drew chuckles from the audience for a forceful delivery that often bordered on shouting, criticized Schuster and Nolan??s proposal “nebulous” and lacking in specifics...
...Moments later, Nolan??s ally, Luc D. Schuster, said he and Nolan had twice sponsored unsuccessful measures to put millions of dollars under the control of principals—money he suggested would be spent directly on students...