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Greenfield School Committee moves forward with superintendent search, sets salary range
Greenfield School Committee member Jean Wall heads up the Superintendent Search Committee. Staff File Photo/Melina Bourdeau
Published: 4/15/2021 6:55:06 PM
GREENFIELD The new school superintendent search is moving along, with the School Committee voting Wednesday night to post the position by April 21 and schedule the beginning of the application review process five weeks later, on May 28.
Early in the meeting during the public comment portion, before the discussion about the superintendent search began, Greenfield resident Doug Selwyn asked why the School Committee is just now starting the search.
“Why are you starting at this late day if you knew this was coming in September?” he asked.
PITTSFIELD â During the thick of a coronavirus pandemic that has roiled public school education everywhere, school officials here are facing a high-stakes decision â who to hire as the next superintendent of Pittsfield Public Schools.
That decision is expected to come Wednesday, when the seven-member Pittsfield School Committee casts its vote from a field of four finalist candidates, according to Chairperson Katherine Yon.
âWe need someone on board who can lead us through the pandemic, who understands the system well enough to be able to accommodate for all the changes that we have to make to make sure everybody stays safe and healthy while learning in the best way possible,â Yon told The Eagle.
Massachusetts students don’t have to take MCAS; and some are arguing they shouldn’t
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Clockwise from the top left, Nora Dyer-Murphy, Abigail Rothstein, Raghav Surya and Ben Schrenzel, members of the Belchertown High School student union for equity, are campaigning to let students know about their right to opt out of the MCAS test.
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With Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test dates approaching, a group of students in Belchertown is making it their mission to let fellow students know they can opt-out of the test.
In Massachusetts, not all families are aware that they can opt their child out for the yearly assessment. These Belchertown High School students are trying to spread the word, aligning themselves with campaigns from the Massachusetts Teachers Association and other groups that feel the test should not be required this year as students still grapple with COVID-19 pandemic-related stress and continue to adjust t