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...been president of the Webster School PTA for the past two years...
Alice K. Wolf, a former president of the Peabody School PTA, has called for equal educational opportunity for all students throughout the city. She stresses the need to revamp educational programs prior to investing $20 million in the soon-to-be-constructed Cambridge high schools, and she says that more community participation is needed in educational decision-making, in order to make schools responsive to community needs...
Agnew opened up a law office in Towson, Md., and quickly became an active member of the community, joining Kiwanis, the local VFW post and becoming president of the local PTA...
Ackermann's interest in the school system led her to run for School Committee, she was then the secretary of the Russell School PTA where her two children went to school. "I decided to run because I was interested in the schools and I aim for the top," she said. Running for School Committee in Cambridge is no easy task. Under the system of proportional representation, a candidate must run from the city at large and persuade at least ten per cent of the voters to make him or her their number one vote...
Ackermann seems to have entered politics with the motto "carpe diem". When a political opportunity comes along, she grabs it. As she said, "I didn't think of going into politics until it happened." In this way she has progressed from member of the PTA, to School Committee, to City Council to mayor. Will she go on for higher office? "Of course I'm interested in something on the statewide level," she says. "It just depends what opens...