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About Carl Lauro
Mr. Lauro was born on April 8, 1926, in Brockton, Massachusetts. His parents brought him to Providence when he was a year old, and he grew up on Federal Hill. He graduated from Central High School and from the University of Rhode Island in 1948 where he studied zoology. He was a laboratory assistant at Providence College for 5 years before beginning his teaching at Central High School in 1953.
He was married to Marie(Colarusso)Lauro and had 3 sons (Michael, Peter & Carl Jr.)and 2 daughters (Maria & Bianca).
Mr. Carl Lauro was an acting Superintendent for the Providence School System. He was a leading candidiate for the permanent post, left vacant when Dr. Charles M. Bernardo took another job.
He participated in numerous curriculum revision projects, including some of the early attempts to modernize science teaching in the 1950's. He worked continually at reform but described himself as a pragmatist rather than a reformist.
He spent the last seven years of his life as an administrator, but most enjoyed his 15 years as a science teacher, mostly at Central High School, where he was the head of the science department from 1956-1968.
Mr. Lauro won grants for several summers of study at the University of Rhode Island. In 1960 he was also one of the 50 teachers from 21 states selected to spend a year at Brown under a National Science Foundation program in which he received his Masters degree.
In 1961 he was named outstanding Rhode Island Science teacher by the Brown University chapter of Sigma Xi, the national science honor society.
In his teaching career which included one year at Classical he taught chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics. He was also the track coach at Central.
He became the science supervisor for the Providence School District in 1970 and the math-science planner in 1972.
Mr. Lauro was named implementation manager, a position equivalent to assistant superintendent, in 1973. The school committe appointed him deputy superintendent late in 1974, but he retained his implementation manager duties.
During his career he contributed to two scientific articles, one published in a professional journal and one in a book, and wrote 3 pamphlets for the school department.
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