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...Tuesday’s Committee meeting, Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey M. Young and School Committee members decided to keep cuts to OLA off the table...
Young said that School Committee members have consistently urged him to look closely at the program, but the proposal to scrap the Two-Way aspect of the OLA program has drawn many concerns among parents, teachers, and students...
Elizabeth Hammond, a parent who spearheaded the movement to keep the OLA program unchanged, said that the proposed changes would have “[undone] how the program worked.” She also said that the teachers at the King Open School were “devastated” about the possible adjustments to the program...
Monique Pinto, a sixth grader who has spent eight years in the OLA program, also voiced concern over the potential changes...
...parents made their first showing at the Tuesday meeting in the Sullivan Chamber in City Hall. Crowds of parents filled the room, donning OLA nametags and matching red carnations—the symbol of the Carnation Revolution in 1974, a coup that brought democracy to Portugal...