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...Committee members questioned whether a proposed roundtable discussion on the system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that is hemorrhaging students...
...Montessori teaching method—might have influenced the survey results. “After you ask if you’ve heard about Montessori, in many ways…you have what I call a very leading question,” said School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80. Despite their reservations about the results of the survey, committee members praised the Montessori program for encouraging a sense of independence and a connection to the environment in young children. Other committee members raised concerns about beginning an isolated program within the Tobin School, which...
...government concentrator at Harvard, first-term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation’s partial divestment from its South African stock in 1986, taught her that with enough support grassroots movements could be successful. “That gave me a sense that you can effect change if you have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century...
...city’s elementary schools. Although the motion introduced by first-term committee member Luc Schuster failed by a 5-2 vote, it raised concerns about the budget drafting process, complicating yesterday’s final vote on the $125 million school budget. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 originally proposed a similar motion late last month, recommending that an extra $75,000 go to each elementary school. “Resources have not shifted directly into our schools,” Nolan said. “I feel very strongly, based on what...
...Running a tight ship, stanching leaks and otherwise imposing message discipline are only part of the battle, says University of Western Ontario journalism professor Michael Nolan, a former parliamentary reporter. He says a rigorous approach to governing has to be tempered with a sense of responsiveness to the public. "A good politician is manipulative, but he doesn't appear to be manipulative," Nolan says. "There's almost a naivet? to Mr. Harper's group because they seem to be doing this so openly...