Late Salem Bus Proposal Would Retain Some District Positions - Salem, MA - Two days before a special School Committee meeting to vote on a fully outsource contract, the district proposes a gradual fleet phase-out.
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Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll announces her bid for re-election: We have a proud past and an even brighter future. And we re just getting started. (Dave Copeland/Patch)
SALEM, MA Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll touted the strength and resiliency the city exhibited showed throughout the coronavirus health crisis, and her desire to build off lessons learned and challenges met amid the adversity of the pandemic, as she announced Tuesday she is running for re-election for a fifth term. Our resilience and hard work have served as a model for the rest of Massachusetts, she said in the announcement released on her Facebook and Twitter pages. We know that this pandemic has laid bare the deeper, system challenges we must and can take on together racism, inequity, affordable housing and economic security for all.
Mackay, Apteker unseat incumbents in New Salem election
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NEW SALEM Monday’s election was a day of overwhelming victories for challengers, as Hugh Mackay bested incumbent Jean Derderian for a three-year Selectboard seat and Susan Apteker unseated Jeff Lett from the Planning Board.
According to Town Clerk Stacy Senflug, Mackay notched 213 votes to Derderian’s 41, and Apteker recorded 164 to overcome Lett’s 77. Of the town’s 825 registered voters, 257 cast ballots, making for a 31 percent voter turnout.
Mackay said Tuesday morning that he expected to be sworn in before that night’s Selectboard meeting, which would be his first on the board.
Mackay, Apteker unseat incumbents in New Salem election
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NEW SALEM Monday’s election was a day of overwhelming victories for challengers, as Hugh Mackay bested incumbent Jean Derderian for a three-year Selectboard seat and Susan Apteker unseated Jeff Lett from the Planning Board.
According to Town Clerk Stacy Senflug, Mackay notched 213 votes to Derderian’s 41, and Apteker recorded 164 to overcome Lett’s 77. Of the town’s 825 registered voters, 257 cast ballots, making for a 31 percent voter turnout.
Mackay said Tuesday morning that he expected to be sworn in before that night’s Selectboard meeting, which would be his first on the board.
‘The greatest equalizer’: Massachusetts educators pitch early college expansion as lawmakers review post-pandemic life
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Manny Cruz, advocacy director of Latinos for Education in Massachusetts and a Salem School Committee member, testifies before lawmakers in a virtual hearing.Screenshot
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Massachusetts education officials on Wednesday pitched an expansion of the early college high school program, praising the programs as an “innovative” approach to counter widening racial disparities among college education rates.
Education experts who testified before the Senate’s “Reimagining Massachusetts” hearing Wednesday repeatedly pointed to early college as a school-to-college-to-job pipeline that has survived the pandemic.