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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...
...takes money to bring students from worse school districts into better ones because you have to bring them up to par," Peterkin said. "Some--not all--of the students coming from the worse districts will have academic needs that the students already in the system don't have. At least some of the funds would have to go to helping these youngsters catch...
While Cambridge Rindge and Latin does operate a program under which tuition-paying students from outside districts can attend classes, Peterkin estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of the high school's current students are actually Boston residents sneaking into the system from across the river...