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...elementary merger plan passes tonight, it will intensify an emotionally charged battle waged by indignant parents, confused students and crying teachers. The Fitzgerald and the Harrington, another low-achieving neighborhood school, would close and their students would be scattered across the rest of the city. Two other, more successful schools would move into the vacant buildings...
...current plan affects fewer schools than its predecessors, but it imposes more drastic measures—none of the previous plans had closed schools outright. And the opposition is as fierce as ever, especially from Fitzgerald and Harrington...
...superintendent wants to close two of Cambridge’s worst performing schools—the Fitzgerald School and the Harrington School—which have among the lowest MCAS scores in the district. After two better-performing schools move onto the empty campuses, the school district will have merged five student bodies into three, and Ola will have moved across the city, an action that will likely destroy the program...
...Cambridge School Committee will vote in the next two weeks whether to approve the plan, which after closing the Harrington and Fitzgerald would relocate the Graham and Parks and King Open Schools into the empty buildings...
...What does this say to the poorest of our families?” said Harrington teacher Emer Malloy. “Our children should not be measured by their test scores but by the slope they have to climb...