Interim Superintendent Joseph Curtis on outlined the ways that the school community will be protected from COVID-19 to the School Committee on Wednesday. Amazingly enough, we re 17 days away from, I ll use the term anniversary although I don t think it s anything to celebrate, from that March 13, 2020, when we had a series of very intense days with [former] Superintendent [Jason] McCandless and representatives, and certainly our mayor, and we made the decision ahead of our governor to close our schools, he told the committee. At that time we were giving an estimate of roughly two weeks for closure just to assess where we were and where we needed to go, and as you know, the better part of one year now, we have remained in remote learning.
Ban on Confederate flag urged in Northampton schools
Desmond Caldwell, principal of JFK Middle School, addresses a crowd that gathered to denounce racism on Wednesday February 24, 2021.
Published: 2/25/2021 9:39:44 PM
NORTHAMPTON JFK middle schooler Willa Polin has seen the Confederate flag in school hallways and on Zoom, she told the School Committee on Thursday night.
“This is a symbol of hate in a place that is supposed to be safe,” she said. “It doesn’t belong in our schools. I believe that a better world is possible, and I believe banning the Confederate flag is one step closer to that better world.”
It s amazing how empowering it is for a child to see they just did something with something the size of a Q-tip that has the power to determine if a virus is in them so they can take care of themselves and their family and their friends, Business Manager Joe Begeron told the School Committee on Thursday night. Every student I saw today had a really positive experience, a really positive outlook for what this means. Mount Greylock was one of the first districts to sign up and take advantage of a state-sponsored pool testing program. Essentially, samples (non-invasive nasal swabs) from a batch of individuals are bundled together into a single sample that is analyzed in the lab.
Fall River Superintendent of School Matthew Malone presented his proposed $179.4 million budget to the School Committee on Monday, kicking off a months-long process of budget hearings and deliberations.
The proposed budget includes funding for 66 new positions, all of which would work directly in school buildings and are related to student services, Malone said. This includes eight new security offices to ensure there is one for every middle school, a new librarian for B.M.C. Durfee High School, additional paraprofessionals for the youngest grade levels, two additional school nurses and a teacher for Talbot Middle School that will oversee the school’s new vocational program.
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