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Article: Being heard at session took just a click ; Survey focused on schools' needs
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2008
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CITY WEEKLY / BROOKLINE
They came. They clicked. They were counted.
To weigh in on priorities for a master plan for school buildings
and playgrounds, nearly 60 Brookline parents, teachers, and
residents gathered earlier this month for a "charette," or a focused
collaboration session, to set its parameters.
"We cannot put together a facilities master plan without the
voice of the people," said William Carnes, with MGT of America Inc.,
a consulting firm hired for $97,500 to help set priorities for
repair, expansion, or reuse of the town's eight K-8 schools and
Brookline High School.
After distributing promised clickers - a sort of miniature TV
remote that allowed participants to opine ...