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After a long and contentious meeting last night, the Cambridge School Committee unanimously approved the merger of the Fletcher and Maynard elementary schools, culminating months of debate. But the amount and source of funding for the merger remained unresolved...
According to the measure, the committee pledged to push for funding to repair either the Fletcher or the Maynard building and to renovate to accommodate technology upgrades and additional classrooms. An architectural study currently underway will dictate the amount of funding needed, committee members said...
...Fletcher-Maynard merger will join two of the school district's worst-performing schools. Parents and school committee members agree that, to overcome this history, the merged school needs what they call "special status...
...Fletcher and Maynard are both located in Area Four, the Cambridge neighborhood with the highest proportion of black and Latino residents. That has meant busing many students from Area Four to other schools that would otherwise have too many white students...
...Maynard has borne the brunt of an ill-conceived plan," Grassi said. "We have to fix that...