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Oh this is just rich! Councilman Ladouceur is "critical of the school department for not consolidating administrative offices as well as schools.". If he had paid attention over the past several years, he'd know that there are not a lot of administrative areas that can be consolidated. Sure there are some but in the grand scheme of things, from a budgetary perspective, they aren't that lucrative and the mandates and strictures for running a school department are very different than those of a city. Funny, he criticized Admin when they were looking to close Gorton and he criticized them again when the proposed consolidating Vets, Aldrich. & Gorton - used the words "social injustice' to be exact. He, and the rest of the Council are cluless as to what goes into running a school district and he, like the rest, demagogue the issue. They criticize them for not consolidating and then they criticize them when they try to consolidate. Classic demagoguery. God forbid if the Charter ever gets changed so that we end up with an appointed School Committee. If you think the schools as they are now are not a draw for people to move here, just wait until the City Council gets their hands on them.