Last month, the school committee instructed D'Alessandro to request municipal funding for a new or extensively renovated school. She said she asked the city manager to include about $15 million in the city's capital budget for the building.
Last Wednesday, officials from Healy's office showed committee members preliminary budget numbers that included no money for the merger.
The measure added several provisions to the recommendations D'Alessandro had first presented to the committee. The measure includes more full-time teachers aides and calls for improved library facilities.
A Special School?
Committee member Joseph G. Grassi has long opposed the district's system of using quotas to ensure racial balance among its 15 elementary schools.
The 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 now."
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