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After not calling a snow day, Cambridge superintendent explains himself

Cambridge Superintendent Kenneth N. Salim. Handout

Public schools in Cambridge were in session on Thursday.

Typically, that wouldn’t be news, but on a day that saw a bevy of Massachusetts school districts, including the one right across the river in Boston, declare a snow day, the district’s superintendent apparently felt the need to explain himself.

In a statement posted to the district’s website Thursday, Kenneth N. Salim acknowledged the district received a “number of messages questioning whether we made the right call.’’