Officials at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School are reporting one case of chickenpox among the student population. School director Peter Steedman sent a letter to parents on Wednesday following the report of the case, providing guidance to families to take precautions. “We have consulted with epidemiologists at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, local […]
In averages of state statistics from the last three years, several Vineyard elementary schools have some of Massachusetts’ highest rates of kindergartners exempt from at least one immunization. According to data compiled by the Boston Globe, the Chilmark School has the state’s second-highest rate. About 23 percent of kindergartners at the up-Island school received exemptions […]
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Lama Tenzin Yignyen returned to Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School (MVPCS), through a donation from the Sound Foundation, to create a sand mandala and teach the students about compassion. Students stopped by Yignyen’s station between classes to talk and make sand designs of their own on a separate table using funnels, like animals and greetings […]
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released the 2022 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test results on Thursday, Sept. 29. According to the press release, these results provide the state with “its second overview of statewide learning since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.” According to the release, the results from the […]