By RORY SCHULER The Johnston School Committee and City Council have planned to hold a pair of special meetings, in joint session, on the evenings of Wednesday March 16 and Wednesday March 23 to discuss school building plans. City voters are expected to vote in a bond referendum, deciding whetherRead More →
Posted 3:05 p.m. Updated 4:21 p.m. *** FRAMINGHAM – President Priscila Sousa recently named the seven sub-committees of the Framingham School Board. There are 9 elected school committee members and seven sub-committees for this 2022-23 term. Each sub-committee has four members. The chair of the school committee has the powerRead More →
WORCESTER — The Board of Election Commissioners began laying the groundwork for a public hearing process on Thursday that will lead to the drawing of the school board’s first district maps. There are still things that need to fall into place, but the council has scheduled four public hearings ThursdayRead More →
Boston city councilors are taking steps to transition the mayoral-appointed policy-making body that oversees Boston’s public schools to an elected board. City councilors Ricardo Arroyo and Julia Mejia on Wednesday reintroduced a bylaws petition, which they originally filed last year, that would allow residents to elect school committee members. TheRead More →
Amid a Wednesday meeting disrupted by a small group of anti-vaccination protesters, the Boston City Council voted to consider turning the city’s mayor-appointed school board into a publicly elected body. Boston voters overwhelmingly expressed their preference for an elected school board in a nonbinding referendum in November. For change toRead More →
By RORY SCHULER A Johnston School committee member quietly resigned and a replacement was sworn in. On December 22, 2021, David Santilli wrote a brief resignation letter and submitted it to Johnston Mayor Joseph M. Polisena. “I will be resigning as a member of the District 3 School Committee effectiveRead More →
WEST — Concerns about the potential level of city and state financial support will weigh on the school board as it develops a proposed education budget for 2022-23. The budget-making process kicked off Wednesday with Superintendent of Schools Mark Garceau and Cindy Kirchhoff, the school district’s director of finance andRead More →
FALL RIVER — The school committee chose veteran member Paul Hart as their new vice president at their first meeting of the new year on Monday. “I am very honored to get the vote as vice president and I will do everything I can to move the district striker“Hart said.Read More →
BRAINTREE – The day the State Department of Education extended the mask-wearing requirement Inside school buildings, the Braintree School Committee postponed much of its agenda because two of its seven members were not wearing masks. The maskless members were Tom Devin, who has been on the committee for a decade,Read More →
WESTERLY — Efforts to work out the terms of a new contract between the school board and the Westerly Teachers Association, the union that represents teachers who work in the city’s public schools, are headed for arbitration though the two parties disagree on how or why they were unable toRead More →
LEWISTON — A new slate of city officials set the rules for the next term on Tuesday, but not before debating the role of the city council’s representative on the school committee. At Monday’s groundbreaking, the council elected Ward 1 councilor Linda Scott, a former school committee member, to fillRead More →
Students attending school in Jacksonville will have more transportation options starting Tuesday, thanks to a new partnership between the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the city and Duval County Public Schools. Local leaders went into detail about the My School Ride 2 pilot program — which will provide free bus rides toRead More →
WEST — The school board will consider asking the state General Assembly to extend two of six temporary bonuses available for school construction and renovation projects that meet goals set out in state law. A proposed resolution to be considered by the school committee at its Jan. 5 meeting asksRead More →
When Boston Public School teacher Neema Avashia watched as the school committee donated open green space next to her John W. McCormack Middle School in Dorchester for development despite pleas from students, of teachers and neighbors who used it for recreation, she suspected the days of the mayor-appointed school boardRead More →
Last month, nearly 80% of Boston voters backed a nonbinding referendum asking voters to elect their school board members. Parents, students, advocates and city councilors began imagining on Monday what it would look like, how many members should be elected and from where. “There is a desire for the schoolRead More →
Boston Public School parents, teachers and graduates called on city councilors to move the mayor-appointed school board to an elected body in a public hearing on Monday, demanding a resounding 79% follow-up to the memorandum. adopted voters on the same ballot question in the November election. . “With this designatedRead More →
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu reappointed Jamaica Plain resident Lorena Lopera to the Boston school board on Tuesday. Lopera was renamed along with South Boston resident Rafaela Polanco García. Lopera and Garcia had been appointed to shortened terms by acting mayor Kim Janey in July. Gracias @MaireWu! I love the opportunityRead More →
The Haverhill School Board and City Council are expected to elect representatives from each of Haverhill’s seven wards, limit the two bodies to nine members and preserve the candidate choices made by voters earlier in the month. The general consensus emerged last night at a joint meeting of Mayor JamesRead More →
HOPKINTON — Over the past six months, local Republicans have slammed the Chariho School Board, Chair Linda Lyall and Superintendent of Schools Gina Picard over allegations they restricted public comment and took steps to prevent non-parents to have their say. on neighborhood affairs. When Hopkinton City Council members Michael GearyRead More →
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Springfield Public School District offers before and after school classes SHINE Program. It provides educational activities for children in kindergarten to grade 8 to address learning loss among students disproportionately affected by coronavirus and school closures, including low-income students, children with disabilities , English language learners,Read More →
RICHMOND — The City Council has named a Rhode Island middle school teacher with 27 years of education experience to fill a seat on the Chariho School Board left vacant following the recent death of Sheila Grover. In a split vote last week, Richmond City Council voted 3-2, with SpeakerRead More →
“We got a clear mandate from the people of Boston to say what they want,” said Councilwoman Lydia Edwards, who supports an elected committee. Proponents of the appointment system argue that the city has an interest in having one person – the mayor – directly responsible for schools and whoRead More →
More … than two out of three voters supported Question 1, a binding referendum asking whether the city should overhaul its budget process, giving city councilors more sway over the city’s purse strings. With 94.90 percentage of boroughs reporting at 11:41 a.m., 68,495 voters said yes to the changes andRead More →
HOPKINTON — A 38-year-old education consultant, mother of four, and Navajo Nation citizen will replace Reverend David Stall on the Chariho school board. Hopkinton City Council voted 3-2 on Monday night to appoint endawnis Spears (Dine/ Ojibwe/ Chickasaw/ Choctaw) to replace Stall, who resigned from his seat after complaining aboutRead More →
Boston voters will be able to weigh in on a nonbinding referendum on Tuesday on whether the city should revert to an elected school board. Boston is the only traditional school system in the state where the school board is appointed by the mayor and one of the few nationally.Read More →
Norfolk officials have presented their latest “Schools Out Afternoon Recreation” program to the city council for this school year, but it comes at a price. NORFOLK, Va. — School is back, which means children in Hampton Roads are dependent on after-school programs. Norfolk City Recreation, Parks & Open Space (RPOS),Read More →
A safer way for children to walk and cycle to school may soon be a possibility for schools in the town of Marion. At a school board meeting on Monday, a representative from Toole Design made a presentation on a school transportation plan being developed by Columbus Landscape Architecture andRead More →
The Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday approved an agreement between the city and EF Education First to improve infrastructure around Trinity Broadcasting’s former headquarters to accommodate pedestrian and transit needs, paving the way for company to set up a for-profit English language program. school on the property. The 6-1Read More →
The Costa Mesa Planning Commission unanimously approved a proposal Monday to resurrect the former Trinity Broadcasting Network headquarters site as an international language campus. The decision — which is final unless appealed to city council within seven days — paves the way for EF Education First to turn 6.19 acresRead More →