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...Compass" program is a summer-school program for special-needs children run in a local elementary school by Lesley College. Wiley said last week the program is used as a "training ground" for Lesley students and as a service to the city of Cambridge. "The kids will lose because of the attitude of some public officials," he added...
Alice K. Wolf, vice chairman of the school committee, said last week Lesley's withdrawing the program was an "irrational institutional response...not in keeping with the event...
Last summer, Wiley said, 80 to 100 children used the program, at a cost of $500 tuition per child. Scholarships were provided for 20 children whose families could not afford the tuition, he added...
Wiley said Lesley College had withdrawn from the rate-setting commission and planned this summer to charge a $50 activities fee to all students, opening the program to both special needs and "regular" children. Wiley said several school committee members had asked him to come to the school committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 to present the plan and get permission to use one of the city's schools...
...Lesley College contributed $3000 to operate the program, Wiley said. He added that if the community is not going to recognize that contribution and use the college as a "public forum for criticism" then it is not in the college's best interest to continue the program with Cambridge. His letter asked the committee for an apology...