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Boston Globe
11-08-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Cambridge names three finalists for district superintendent Monday
Mayor Denise Simmons, who serves as School Committee chair, did not respond to requests for comment Monday. Cambridge has been without a permanent schools leader since May 2024, when the School Committee voted Related : Advertisement Murphy, an attorney who had been serving as the district's chief operations officer, was named the interim superintendent that June. None of the finalists immediately responded to a request for comment Monday afternoon. The district will hold listening sessions during the week of Aug. 20, and School Committee members will conduct site visits to the finalists' school districts the week of Sept. 15, according to a schedule posted by the district. There will also be opportunities to meet each of the finalists during the week of Sept. 22, according to the district. The School Committee will interview the finalists on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, and a vote to select the next superintendent is expected Oct. 6, according to the district. Advertisement Finalist interviews will be broadcast live and will be open to the public, the district said in its announcement. Public comment will not be included, it said. Cambridge's public school district is home to about 7,000 students, according to state data, and more diverse than the state as a whole. Black students make up more than one-fifth of the district, while Asian and Latino students each count for about 15 percent, the state reported. Around a tenth of Cambridge's students are multi-race, and roughly a third are white, state data showed. Students and Cambridge district staff represent more than 109 countries, 89 languages are spoken in the schools, and about 30 percent of students speak a first language other than English, according to an online description for the superintendent's job. The superintendent oversees a district with more than 2,000 employees, including educators, and a proposed budget of $280 million for fiscal 2026. Greer, the previous Cambridge superintendent, had Smith drew complaints from teachers and parents over her decision-making on issues like the assignments of some assistant teachers in classrooms and a police presence at the school. Cambridge Public Schools hired an outside law firm to review Smith's leadership of the school early in 2024, which determined the allegations against Smith were unsubstantiated. Greer was placed on paid leave until her final day in early August 2024. Greer, whose tenure as superintendent ended a year early, received more Advertisement Greer earned $260,000 in fiscal 2023, the first year of her three-year contract, which also included a 2.5 percent bump in pay in each of the remaining two years. 'I am saddened to leave,' Greer This is a developing story. Check back for updates. John Hilliard can be reached at
Boston Globe
09-05-2025
- Boston Globe
Music teacher from Cambridge facing new child porn charges
That man, identified as 27-year-old Christopher Allan Tisoy, was also charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of minors, US Attorney Leah B. Foley's office said in a statement. The two men were ordered held following their initial appearance Thursday in federal court. Each is due back in court next week, the statement said. At the time of his initial arrest, DeWitte was teaching at Buckingham Browne & Nichols Lower School, a private school in Cambridge. He was previously employed Cambridge Public Schools, the Globe reported. DeWitte was first flagged in December 2024 when a Snapchat file linked to his account was found to show the abuse of a boy between the ages of eight and 10, the statement said. Advertisement Additional Snapchat records showed DeWitte had solicited explicit photos and videos from purported minors, shared some of his own, and discussed past and possible future in‑person meetups, according to the statement. Cambridge police arrested him on Jan. 9 based on those findings; he was later released under court‑imposed conditions, the statement said. The arrest resulted in the seizure and search of his phone, uncovering Telegram messages with Tisoy, a medical technologist at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital who lived in the Philippines until September 2024, the statement said. Advertisement In those chats, they allegedly arranged for DeWitte to pay Tisoy to produce child pornography of boys in the Philippines to DeWitte's specifications, the statement said. The conversations identified four minor boys by name and arranged for pornography involving at least two of them in the Philippines. Between July 3, 2023 and Dec. 27, 2024, DeWitte sent 87 payments to Tisoy, totaling approximately $23,752, in exchange for the videos, the statement said. Material from previous Globe stories was used in this report. Rita Chandler can be reached at
