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Shefik Mehmet can't take five steps along Green Lanes high street in north London without someone stopping him to chat. Mehmet, a rotund Turk who has lived in this area for over 50 years, is technically retired, now that his son runs the family hair salon. But he's still busy working for the community. As chair of the local traders' association, he calms any frictions between businesses and residents. In his spare time, he works with local police to defuse clashes between ethnic gangs. Plus he's a governor at a nearby college, where he helps promote integration...
...services, and that no council funding or volunteer man hours are wasted. The Living Under One Sun project helps women of many cultures, often recently arrived in Britain. "There are many things women want to do, but don't know how to start," says Aynur Erisir, a Kurdish Turk who volunteers for the project. "Do you say 'Hi' to your neighbor, or not? Do you smile or not? You don't know their cultures and customs." So each week, women bring their children to meet at an adventure playground, where one community plays host and teaches the others about...
...people you want to cut. This is too vague,” he said. The committee is set to make a final decision on the budget in March. Members of the committee also heard an update on kindergarten-through-eighth grade report card reforms given by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk. She explained the strides that a reform committee had taken toward providing a more informative curriculum guide, which will provide parents with a more in-depth look at classroom subjects. The current system, which employs 64 different report cards, would be thinned to simply three different report cards...
...point where teachers say, ‘I don’t worry about the MCAS. I just get the kids engaged and excited and—oh, by the way—they pass.’” But Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk said that the district was not concerned only with MCAS performance. “We have a universal focus on achievement,” she said. “We now have a much clearer curriculum and we have opportunities for students to show their improvement, and that’s life beyond MCAS...
Cambridge Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk accepted the check along with Contrucci on behalf of the schools, and said that the relationship between HPT and the school system represents the relationship that should exist between Harvard and Cambridge...