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A district-wide planning process is currently underway in the Cambridge Public Schools, launched in the fall of 2010. This process is an extension of the district’s 2009-10 middle school study, and results from the realization that we can’t address middle school issues effectively in isolation.
Superintendent Jeff Young, Mayor David Maher, and the Cambridge School Committee established three working teams—a Facilities Team, a Controlled Choice Team, and a JK-8 Education Programming Team—to engage in the multi-dimensional planning work required to move our district forward. Each team is led by two school committee members who serve as co-chairs, and consists of CPS administrators, teachers, community members, and content-area experts. The mission and leadership of each team is as follows:
Controlled Choice: Richard Harding & Patty Nolan, Co-chairs
To make school district choices much better for Cambridge families by reviewing the Controlled Choice policy and recommending policy changes to the Superintendent for adoption by the School Committee, while maintaining the values of integrity, balance, and diversity, and improving the experience of families in the school assignment process.
Facilities: Nancy Tauber & Fred Fantini, Co-chairs
To develop a Schools Facilities Plan that meets the educational needs of the Cambridge school-age population and advances the quality of education.
JK-8 Education Program: Marc McGovern & Alice Turkel, Co-chairs
To create a set of recommendations designed to ensure a cohesive district-wide school system in which all students attend schools that provide a wide variety of rigorous educational and healthy social experiences at every grade level from junior kindergarten through eighth grade.
Planning Process and Timeline
- Teams work through the fall, gathering community feedback through a variety of forums
- Teams submit recommendations to the Superintendent in mid-December
- Superintendent submits district’s formal recommendations to the School Committee February 1st
- Superintendent convenes two town hall meetings for public feedback, February 9th and February 10th
- School Committee holds a public hearing on the Superintendent’s recommendations February 15th
- School Committee votes on final recommendations March 1st
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