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Superintendent Robert J. Peterkin last week released his plans for the Cambridge School District's budget for fiscal year 1986 it carries a $50.9 million price tag. Four million dollars more than last year's budget, the proposal calls for $446,200 to be spent on new of expanded program designed to improve local school children's educational performance Peter in said...
...Peterkin's plan goes $1.6 million beyond City Manager Robert W. Healy's estimated allotment for the schools in the city's overall budget...
...major point of controversy and local educators is the degree of state involvement in traditionally local decisions which the bill proposes--"the hobgoblin of consistency," according to Peterkin...
This problem, Peterkin said, would pit the ethnically and racially diverse population of Cambridge against those of, for example, Pittsfield residents'. If the bill passes, he would submit his plan to state authorities, but if enough resources existed to develop the plan, Peterkin would not let the Board tell him that "the multi-lingual, multi-cultural education interferes with their computer literacy education...
...local educators felt that the Governor's plan is really designed to help districts with lower standards and not school committees which have already made the commitment to education Peterkin pointed out that while Cambridge spends $46.5 million on 8000 students. Lawrence spends $16 million on 9000 students...