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Some money will have to come from the many special programs in the school system: occupational education, bilingual transition programs, alternative schools and extended kindergartens. These are the programs that elect candidates and no one is talking of cutting them...
Voters elect six members of the school committee. The mayor, chosen by the City Council from among its members, serves as the seventh member and often holds the deciding vote...
...incumbents, Sara Mae Berman, former world record holder in the marathon, is known as the champion of equal spending for women's athletics, and Glenn S. Koocher '71 as spokesman for special students with learning and physical disabilities. Alice K. Wolf, a graduate of the Kennedy School, is leading the fight against patronage in school administration appointments...
There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
When you were a fourth-grader gym was a time and a place for Philadelphia kickball and the President's Physical Fitness Tests. But for the mid-Cambridge children who attend the Longfellow Elementary School, every two years their gym becomes a lesson in civics. But that isn't Cambridge's only peculiarity...