Word: fantini
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Yesterday's school committee returns showed incumbent Alice Wolf more than 2000 votes ahead of her nearest challenger, Donald Fantini...
There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
...Please don't force us to make deals to get the majorities we must have," Koocher added. He said that the three liberal school committee members had bargained with independent Donald Fantini to gain support on crucial votes...
...Mario Fantini, professor and dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, who shared the platform with Willie, said society is about to enter into an age of education. "We have a school system and we need an educational system," he said...
...Fantini emphasized "the need for schools to provide alternatives to traditional educational systems so that all students will be allowed to fulfill their potential as individuals and as humans...