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Candidate statement: "The incumbents on the School Committee know very little about setting policy, which is their legal mandate. They spent money on resources that did not go directly into the classroom--shame on them...
...parent of two children in the public schools, Walser wrote the annual Parent's Guide to Cambridge Schools (1997, 1998, 1999). She hopes to reform middle school programs, reallocate funds toward classrooms and students and away from mid-level administration, and do a better job of evaluating and supporting teachers...
Candidate statement: "As the author of the Parent's Guide for the past four years, I have been in every school in the city many times. I will work full-time as a representative for all of them--not just some....As someone who has written extensively about education, I will also do my best to make sure the School Committee makes policy decisions that are educationally sound...
...many of today's law school graduates, he said, enter corporate law instead of public interest work, resulting in an unnatural concentration of power in the hands of large corporations...
Nader, a 1958 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate, spoke before a packed room of nearly 500 people at the HLS Forum. Held in the Ames Courtroom, the Forum annually invites distinguished individuals to speak before members of the Harvard community and the general public...