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.
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Greenfield teachers’ union disappointed in lack of school reopening plan
Greenfield High School’s main entrance. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 3/17/2021 5:09:59 PM
GREENFIELD The president of the Greenfield School Department’s teachers’ union says staff and families are still waiting for a reopening plan from administrators.
According to Paul DeMarco, a field representative with the Massachusetts Teachers Association in Holyoke, despite attempts by the Greenfield Education Association to negotiate an agreement with the School Committee for the April 5 return to full in-person learning for elementary students, educators said the district remains unprepared.
“We’re 100 percent focused on a safe return to school for our kids, so it’s incredibly disappointing that the School Committee still has no plan, not even a draft plan,” Greenfield Education Association President Ann Valentine said. “They sent us an email claiming that ‘site-based teams with teacher