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Harvard University Stores (HUS) Manager Michael L. O'Hara said yesterday he was notified in January of the decision to close HUS, which is a subsidiary of the Harvard Purchasing Department. A campus purchaser and distributor of copying machine supplies, paper products and lab supplies for 40 years, HUS last year was subject to a departmental review...
...School Committee members charge that an elected body is more democratic, despite the struggles with Flynn. O'Reilley argues, "A School Committee elected by districts is the type of group that will make noise...The School Committee should be the community's advocate for education, [even if] there may be an adversarial relationship [with the mayor...
...interest groups, however, claim to represent the bureaucracy. According to O'Bryant, the School Committee voted Tuesday night to approve the general idea of school-based management. And McKinnis says, "Parents would like to have things decentralized." Even School Superintendent Wilson is working on his own decentralization plan, according to Ian Forman, Wilson's public information officer...
Their argument is that a student assignment plan doesn't address the more central question of education. O'Bryant says, "If you're talking about moving children, you're not talking about an educational activity. If you're talking about giving people choice, you have to give them something to choose...
...O'Bryant says, "The whole idea is a package... If the city comes through [with more money], I think we'll get it off the ground...