Word: peterkin
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Since the program went into full effect in September 1981, performance on basic skills tests has improved and attendance in the elementary schools is up, said Robert Peterkin, who was superintendent of Cambridge schools from 1984 to 1988. Peterkin now heads the Urban Superintendent's program at the Graduate School of Education...
...from a purely financial standpoint, the city might be wise to join in, Peterkin said...
...justify asking a school system that spends $6200 per student to send $9000 to another system?" asked Peterkin. "This is just the rich getting richer...
...This is not a one man show," Hays says. "I see [Peterkin's departure] as a disappointment. I don't see it as leaving us hanging...
...Peterkin himself readily acknowledges that his time in Milwaukee was short, but he says that the reforms there are as much the work of the community as his own. "A school system isn't simply vested in whoever happens to be the superintendent at that time," he says. "These are initiatives that will carry...