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After fifteen minutes, the bewildered committeemen recessed Frisoli assumed the Superintendent's chair for the second night in a row. Ackermann asked him to leave. Frisoli declined, insisting that he still held the office...
...dispute reached Suffolk Superior Court on September 8 but Judge Francis J. Good postponed it until next Monday. The suit, brought by minority committeemen James F. Fitzgerald and Donald A. Fantini on Frisoli's behalf, argues that the 57-year-old Superintendent has tenure in his position. Frisoli has 36 years experience in the Cambridge School System, but only one year a Superintendent...
What incensed the committeemen was a relatively obscure section of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). It requires every federal agency to publish detailed statements on the "environmental impact" of every bridge or canal or other project under its jurisdiction-plus "reasonable" alternatives to those projects...
...even the commission is sure that more money would revolutionize the education of slum children. The committeemen were mindful, however, of the wry argument of Berkeley Law Professor John E. Coons, senior author of the most influential book in the current debate, Private Wealth and Public Education: "If money is inadequate to improve education, the residents of poor districts should at least have an equal opportunity to be disappointed by its failure...
...four of the school committeemen who voted against Frisoli promised to do so when they campaigned for office in the fall...