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COVID-slide is a national trend. But what about Greenwich students?
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Students enter North Mianus School in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, March 2, 2021.File / Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
GREENWICH Throughout the country, educators and parents are contending with “COVID-slide” by students, a loss of learning caused by the pandemic and the subsequent shift away from in-person teaching.
But a loss of learning and the widening of the achievement gap, at least according to early reports from Greenwich Public Schools, is less pronounced in town than was perhaps anticipated.
“It’s natural coming out of an unprecedented spring where teachers were asked to pivot quickly to unfamiliar teaching patterns that one could conclude that performance would be adversely affected,” Marc D’Amico, the district’s director of curriculum for K-8 and head of K-5 leadership, told the Board of Education at its March 11 meeting. “The
Greenwich school board member in hot seat after hot mic profanity
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Republican Board of Education member Peter Sherr on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
GREENWICH A majority of the Greenwich Board of Education feel an apology is due after one board member audibly made disparaging remarks apparently about board Chair Peter Bernstein, during a virtual school board meeting last week.
Several board members also said a formal censure of Peter Sherr is possible, though none said definitively whether the board would take up the issue, which would require a two-thirds vote.
The need to atone arises out of the Feb. 18 Board of Education meeting, at which long-simmering tensions between the two longest-serving board members momentarily boiled over.
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