Word: turk
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...contentious decision that some community members called racially charged, the Cambridge Public School Committee chose as its new superintendent an outsider—Jeffrey M. Young, head of Newton Public Schools—over longtime Cambridge resident and Interim Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk. The school committee voted 5-2 for Young, who is white, in a public meeting last night, with only Mayor E. Denise Simmons and Alfred F. Fantini supporting Turk, who is black. The decision marks the end of a nationwide search that began in December, one month after former Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn?...
...Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen becoming the next head of NATO. Turkey had threatened to veto Rasmussen because of his handling of a 2006 crisis over controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. According to White House officials, Obama promised Turkey that one of Rasmussen's deputies would be a Turk and that Turkish commanders would be present at the alliance's command...
...What’s good for special ed children is what’s good for all children,” said Turk, who is the deputy superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools...
...response to a question about how they would work to diminish the city’s achievement gap, both Turk and Young—who is the superintendent of Newton Public School—said they believed holding all students to rigorous standards, regardless of racial and socioeconomic differences, would result in progress in all subgroups...
...Turk and Young said that they would determine an action plan based on the recommendations put forth in the 2007 Blue Ribbon Commission report on the state of the city’s middle school education...