3/31/2021
Prom, graduation plans in the works
After a long year of distance learning, the end is finally in sight for students who spent part or all of the past year learning from home.
The Woonsocket Education Department announced a plan last week to bring students back to class five days per week. With the exception of kindergarten and pre-K students, who are already back to school full-time, students have been on a combination of fully distanced and hybrid learning schedules all year.
Next Monday, April 5, students in grade 6 at Woonsocket Middle School and grades 9 and 12 at Woonsocket High School will return to in-person learning five days per week. Next Tuesday, they’ll be joined by grades 1 and 2. Elementary school students will attend school four days a week through early May to allow students who chose to continue distance learning to come into the school for testing on Mondays.
WOONSOCKET – In a clear airing of their views on the subject, a majority of Woonsocket School Committee members last week said they have no interest in Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt’s proposal to develop Barry Field.
The conversation took place during a School Committee meeting last Wednesday, Feb. 10, just one week after members discussed the subject in closed session. Chairman Paul Bourget asked members to each share their opinion on the issue. He’s made his own views clear in previous comments and repeated them again last week.
“The one thing that the city has, it has plenty of parks, but it doesn’t have much open land,” he said, adding he’d say no to the project if asked today.