Committee members pressed Evans about the CRLS course catalog. Students had filled in course selection cards the previous week, but the night before the school committee meeting, city councilors had said publicly they worried the courses would be obsolete once the school is restructured next year.

Evans responded the reform will mean only a few changes to the catalog.

Over the summer, some teachers will be trained in advising and in new literacy programs Evans is initiating.

In addition, about 75 percent of the high school's classrooms will be moved over the summer, according to David Stephen, a former CRLS teacher who is working on the physical restructuring of the building.

As part of the redesign, CRLS' five existing houses, which vary in size and teaching style, will become evenly-sized schools that use similar curriculum.

That means that in order to even out staffing and arrange the new schools, teachers will change classrooms and their personal cabinets and files will be moved with them. Stephen said there would be "too many constraints" on creating the schools if staff were not moved around.

Committee members questioned Evans for about two hours and say now they still have lingering questions about logistics next fall and about improving vocational education at CRLS.