Investigate the condition of restrooms at the King School.
Conduct an audit of the elementary school breakfast program.
Assemble a report on updating all the broadcasting equipment in the television studio.
These were just three of the items on the to-do list of Cambridge's Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro--a list that was 98 items long.
The list, whose length reached its zenith last year at a whopping 109 items, hovered over the heads of D'Alessandro and the school committee.
"It's the homework assignment you can't finish," says committee member Alice L. Turkel.
So last week, the committee voted to throw it out the window.
The list will begin anew--but this time around, there will be limits on the number of requests members can make, in an effort to cap the list's length.
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