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Lawrence Harmon

Is Menino the education mayor or not?

By Lawrence Harmon

 |  Globe Columnist  

  December 23, 2011

If Mayor Menino passes over educator Meg Campbell for an open seat on the 7-member Boston School Committee for the second time, he should turn in his credentials as the education mayor. All of the major challenges faced by the city’s public school system - special education, bilingual education, the achievement gap, and underperforming schools - are areas that Campbell knows well and has tackled with success.

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