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...serious problem solving with the school committee,” she said. “And there will be times when we don’t see eye to eye but the outcome will be the best for kids.” Young, the last speaker, is the current Newton Public Schools Superintendent. He said one of the aspects of the Cambridge community that excited him was its potential to form many partnerships with local universities and businesses, although he added that he valued “quality over quantity.”He also emphasized that he would...
...would cost up to $50,000 a day to operate--three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. "It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass. "What's it like to separate a third- or fifth-grader from their parents...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy, Jay Newton-Small, Michael Scherer, Mark Thompson, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin / Washington...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and Jay Newton-Small...
...figure, a study conducted with different measures published in 2000 put the total at 1.35 million children living in homelessness each year. The numbers are likely to get worse as the economy continues to decline. "We know the numbers are going to skyrocket," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the Newton, Mass.-based Center and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School...