Dec 17, 2020
AMESBURY â The school district s five buildings will be closed to students for the rest of the calendar year after the School Committee voted 6-1 on Tuesday night to shift the district into a remote learning model until January.
Students will attend class remotely Thursday and Friday as well as Monday through Wednesday next week before beginning the winter break Dec. 24. In-person hybrid learning is scheduled to begin once again Jan. 4.
High-priority students will, however, attend class in person for the rest of the week. They will begin learning remotely with the rest of the students beginning Monday.
Acting Superintendent Elizabeth McAndrews said reduced staffing at Amesbury Middle School prompted her to move that school to a remote learning model Friday.
Dec 16, 2020
AMESBURY â Amesbury Middle School students will remain at home until next month and elementary and high school students will join them after the School Committee voted 6-1 on Tuesday night to switch to remote learning until Jan. 4.
Reduced staffing at the middle school prompted acting Superintendent Elizabeth McAndrews to shift students there back to remote learning on Friday.
McAndrews told the committee on Tuesday night that staffing remains a problem districtwide.
Committee members Peter Hoyt, Abigail Jurist Levy, Mel Webster, Maryann Welch, Elaine Bucher and Mayor Kassandra Gove voted to switch to remote learning while Kate Currie voted against the measure.
By JIM SULLIVAN | The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass. | Published: December 11, 2020 AMESBURY, Mass. (Tribune News Service) The new Amesbury elementary school will be named after Sgt. Jordan Shay, a graduate of Amesbury High School who was killed in 2009 on his second tour of duty in Iraq. On a 5-2 vote Monday night, the Amesbury School Committee said the planned building will be known as the Sgt. Jordan Shay Memorial Lower Elementary School. The city is working with the Massachusetts School Building Authority to build the $60.5 million school next to the Cashman Elementary School on Lions Mouth Road. According to a press release from Mayor Kassandra Gove s office, school construction is expected to break ground in 2021, with an anticipated open date in early 2023.
Sgt. Jordan Shay
AMESBURY â The new Amesbury elementary school will be named after Sgt. Jordan Shay, a graduate of Amesbury High School who was killed in 2009 on his second tour of duty in Iraq.
On a 5-2 vote Monday night, the Amesbury School Committee said the planned building will be known as the Sgt. Jordan Shay Memorial Lower Elementary School.
The city is working with the Massachusetts School Building Authority to build the $60.5 million school next to the Cashman Elementary School on Lions Mouth Road. According to a press release from Mayor Kassandra Goveâs office, school construction is expected to break ground in 2021, with an anticipated open date in early 2023.