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...district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When the president of the NAACP Cambridge chapter, Kathy A. Reddick, raised her concerns at a February school committee meeting, the school system compared minority groups’ performance to that of whites. Using the new CPI benchmarking system, the 2005-2006 report released last night shows that the minority-white achievement gaps are narrowing. The report recalculates the achievement gaps...
...release any specific information about the candidates—such as the number of applicants or their biographical details.Despite its closed nature, the search process did receive some scrutiny from community leaders.In a March interview with the Cambridge Chronicle, shortly after the start of the search, Kathy A. Reddick, the president of the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP and a member of the search committee, lamented the lack of women and minorities on the list of candidates to replace Knight, who is African-American.And school committee members said the secrecy surrounding this first stage of the search did not make managerial...
...could accept this report if white students scored at 100 percent all the time,” said civil rights leader Kathy Reddick, the president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP...
...leaders of an apartheid educational system?” Reddick asked committee members...
...long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early. Karen Reddick Yurka Manzanita, Oregon...