Word: school
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be a typical scene from a typical school, but Birkett--dressed in a black-checked bow tie and coordinating jacket--oversees Cambridge's only charter school...
Dalina attends the school because she was selected in a lottery. The school.is 97 percent minority, by far the highest in Cambridge. The teacher Birkett was talking to has no tenure--like all Banneker teachers, he's on a one-year contract. Dalina was still wearing her school uniform. The basketball players--shooting hoops nearly two hours after school let out--were a student and a teacher playing...
Quietly, the school--which focuses on math and science--has created what teachers and students call the "Banneker community...
...while any head of a school values their students, Birkett puts in the time to prove it. He works 70 hours a week, arriving at 7 each morning and leaving after everyone is gone...
...Even the school security guard, Glenn S. Harris, says Birkett works like a man possessed...