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...Cambridge School Committee decides not to renew Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro’s contract after five years of service, saying that she had failed to present a clear vision for narrowing achievement gaps and formulating an acceptable school merger plan...
...investigation upheld the university’s decision not to reappoint Dixon but suggested a one-year extension of her contract. The protesters felt let down by the decision the committee had reached, but within the ranks of university administrators its chair had made her mark...
Rawls is credited with reviving the social contract tradition in philosophy, and his magnum opus, A Theory of Justice, is considered a staple of undergraduate reading lists...
When Ray and Ann Ginger refused to answer questions about their affiliation with the Communist Party, the administrators asked Ray Ginger to resign. He and his wife, who was pregnant at the time, were told that he would only receive the last month of pay remaining on his contract if the family left the area immediately, according to Ann Ginger...
Which was ironic considering that postgame interviews with Walsh were the closest I ever came to student-faculty interaction in college. As a sophomore, when I mentioned how lefty Kenon Ronz had a contract to play on the Cape later that summer, Walsh gave me a verbal pat-on-the-head: “You’ve done your homework.” (Too bad it came at the expense of actual homework...