Word: alessandro
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Criticism from Price and others centered on what D’Alessandro hasn’t done—communicating with parents and keeping up with the school committee’s demands...
...When D’Alessandro had come under fire before, it had been for the drastic projects she was pushing through one after the other...
Soon after she took office, D’Alessandro revamped the district’s failing technical arts program and led a controversial redesign of the high school meant to even discrepancies among its five small schools...
...each point, D’Alessandro assembled a temporary coalition of supporters, but gradually her relations with the people who run the schools—not just the school committee but the vocal parents it answers to—deteriorated...
...weeks, hundreds of parents have turned out at committee meetings to protest the merger proposals. They used hours of the public comment periods to complain they had not been notified of changes that would affect their schools. Some had gone as far as to suggest that D’Alessandro be fired...