DiLando says she spends a "fair amount" of her time trying to keep the length of the list down. The work on reports is never-ending and DiLando welcomes a fresh start.
"We have, we hope, a better system," she says. "We're starting a new slate, a nice clean slate."
Lois E. Sullivan, director of public information for the Cambridge Public Schools, has followed the school committee closely for 10 years.
In the past, she says, officials from the school department met after every committee meeting to parcel out the reports among the administrators best qualified to handle each one.
"We developed a system," she says. "It didn't go anywhere."
But unfinished reports are a drag on the smooth functioning of the school department.
"That kind of stuff is what clogs it up--just knowing there are lots of [reports]," she says.
Turkel says she does not blame D'Alessandro for working only "intermittently" to fulfill the committee's requests but says she worried about the effect of the backlog.
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