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Letter: Academy grounds may open again at end of June
By admin
Published: June 11, 2010
Neighbors’ access to Norton’s Woods, the grounds at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, could return from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week by June 30, according to a letter sent Friday by the academy’s Pul Karoff.
Letter: Schools restructuring is needed, but so is compassion
By admin
Published: May 27, 2010
Restructuring in Cambridge Public Schools is needed. The city employs more administrative staff than any other school district its size, and more than many districts significantly larger. But in making tough decisions, we must never lose our compassion.
Letter: Students tackle problem at Morse School
By admin
Published: May 21, 2010
It would make our lives easier if we could carry backpacks. Most days we have to carry our science, math, social studies and Spanish things, and we carry a lot. So this is our project and we are going to try to change it.
Letter: Draper Labs earns thanks from orchestra
By admin
Published: April 18, 2010
The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra sincerely thanks Charles Stark Draper Laboratory for its generous operating support for the CSO’s current concert season, our 35th.
Letter: Bill offers impressive response to intense and prevalent bullying
By admin
Published: March 9, 2010
Marc McGovern, vice chairman of the Cambridge School Committee, writes in support of Senate Bill 2283, the anti-bullying legislation.
I’m coming clean on littering
By admin
Published: February 5, 2010
Why do kids, or adults for that matter, think it okay to just toss trash on the ground? Where is the pride?
Orchestra thanks youth hosts for MLK event
By admin
Published: January 23, 2010
The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra thanks the city’s Area IV Youth Center, especially center director Trent Ramsey, teen program director Malika Cox-Arty and preteen program director Bryn Van Alstyne, for making our orchestra part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day youth event Friday.
We value the opportunity to work with Cambridge’s other community groups and agencies [...]
Superintendent asks input on teaching middle schoolers
By admin
Published: December 10, 2009
Schools Superintendent Jeff Young is seeking community input, through an online survey, on the best way to educate city middle schoolers.
Facts favor Cambridge children seeking satisfying afterschool activities
By admin
Published: December 5, 2009
I found a recent letter to the editor of Cambridge Day complaining about a “dearth” of programming for children rather perplexing. Does the word dearth describe a list of 125 Department of Human Services OST offerings?
Afterschool programs needed
By admin
Published: October 7, 2009
As a parent of teens, I can only reiterate the importance of achieving structured quality out-of-school options for our kids. As stated by leading advocates for afterschool programming, kids are awake 6,000 hours per year. They spend 1,000 of those hours in school and the remaining 5,000 hours trying to figure out what to do with themselves.