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Two problems, two fixes in controlled choice
By admin
Published: November 4, 2011 at 11:21 AM
The current controlled choice integration policy does a great disservice when it asks parents, in the name of integration, to send their child on a bus across town to attend a school that is not integrated.
Article suggests new conflict of interest in civil rights lawsuit
By Marc Levy
Published: November 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Don’t miss The Cambridge Chronicle’s piece on the origins of the civil rights lawsuits filed by former city employees Linda Stamper and Mary Wong, including what looks to be another charge of conflict of interest — this time by the city’s own lawyers.
Parents waiting for schools weren’t told of forced change in policy
By Marc Levy
Published: October 28, 2011 at 01:11 AM
Without notice to parents and in what one School Committee member is calling “a breach of our protocol,” the district has been forced into changing the school choice formula more or less on the fly, likely costing some families their ideal campuses.
City blocked its Human Rights commissioners in Monteiro case
By Bob Sprague
Published: October 25, 2011 at 01:07 PM
The city’s own Human Rights Commission faced opposition from the city’s Law Department when it sought to discuss the years-old civil-rights lawsuits recently settled by Cambridge for millions of dollars.
Election forum about more than city manager — but not by much
By Bob Sprague
Published: October 24, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Matters of parking tickets and snow removal got a hearing alongside talk of the city manager, lawsuit settlements and contract negotiations at a candidates forum. The next forum is Tuesday in Central Square.
Buchanan: Keep Americans out of America!
By Marc Levy
Published: October 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Pat Buchanan’s sad, racist book “Suicide of a Superpower” has trouble understanding history, let alone demographics or politics.
Four settled lawsuits vie for forum time with cost of buying homes
By Marc Levy
Published: October 18, 2011 at 06:02 PM
The settling of two civil rights lawsuits so quickly after an $8.3 million payout to a third plaintiff could quiet questions about City Manager Robert W. Healy at Wednesday’s candidates forum in West Cambridge. Or not.
Why conservatives’ Occupy Boston outrage falls flat
By Marc Levy
Published: October 16, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Conservatives are filled with righteous — er, self-righteous — indignation over the fact that Occupy Boston’s presence in Boston’s Dewey Square meant a Saturday fundraiser for the poor had to be canceled.
Potentially senile Howie Carr jeers Cambridge arrests for Occupy Boston
By Marc Levy
Published: October 16, 2011 at 12:55 AM
If it has a point at all, a recent Howie Carr column about Cantabrigians getting arrested with Occupy Boston last week is extraordinarily confusing — in fact, utterly nonsensical.
First Monteiro, now final two civil rights lawsuits settled
By Marc Levy
Published: October 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM
The two of seven remaining civil rights filed against Cambridge in the early 2000s have been settled, according to a press release issued by the city and the plaintiffs, Linda Stamper and Mary Wong.