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Parents criticized the Cambridge public schools?? controlled choice system, a placement program that attempts to increase diversity based on socioeconomic status rather than race, in a hearing last night. At the meeting, held by the school community relations subcommittee, parents pleaded for more access to information and a more humanized approach. Controlled choice allows parents to submit a ranked list of preferred elementary schools but ultimately uses an algorithm that assigns students to fulfill set demographic ratios. Cambridge parent Raymond Traieth, who said he believes controlled choice has failed, said the “cold cynicism?...
...said this proposal does not diminish prospects for legislation but stressed Grassley’s preference for “self-regulation.” No legislation has been filed, and Gerber said committee staff had only just begun analyzing data requested last winter from the 136 wealthiest U.S. schools??analysis she said was “key to have completed” before a legislative effort. Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community and public relations, expressed skepticism about the benefits of a new form in an interview yesterday...
...freshman, Elizabeth G. Hornig ’08 read Kozol’s 1991 book “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools?? in a single...
...They were determined to suppress any semblance of civil rights activities in the Boston schools??they were eager to get rid of me,” he said. “But like most Harvard graduates, I didn’t suffer long...
This sort of tariff would undoubtedly hurt schools?? fundraising programs: If donors knew that the money they bequeathed to their alma mater would partially or fully be heading to the state (or push the target college or university over the $1 billion mark), they would think twice before writing that check. While the donations that some of these schools receive are more than just hefty, the amount of money schools would be required to give under this tax would often be even greater. For example, under this law, Harvard would have to pay $875 million dollars...