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Interim Superintendent of Schools Carolyn Turk said she would continue to meet with community members and principals this week and then consider changes to the plan...
...committee fired Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro in November, saying she had failed to communicate adequately with the community about the consolidation plans she proposed. The committee hired her deputy, Carolyn Turk, to serve as interim superintendent of schools while the committee searches for a permanent replacement...
...think Bobbie had alienated people in a certain kind of way with all the surprises,” Erlien says. “I think Carolyn Turk is less the Pollyanna: ‘you’re going to love this, this is terrific,’ that Bobbie always did. She’s much more matter-of-fact and ‘here...
Others say that Turk and her administrative team have succeeded in communicating with parents where D’Alessandro failed...
...Carolyn Turk and [Cambridge Public Schools Chief Operating Officer] Jim Maloney have run a much more open process than Bobbie ever did,” Andrews says. “The plan itself tries a lot harder than a lot of the D’Alessandro plans to explain what it’s about. For some parents that does tend to calm them down...