In which Paul un-declares himself from the upcoming School Committee contest.
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About that School Committee race…
Upcoming events: Community Dialog and state budget talk
Two events to put on your calendar: an October 13 chat with Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Murphy on the state of the State's budget. Then set aside the evening of October 27 for an important Community Dialog on the future direction of the public schools.
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Updated Wellington plans available online
The Wellington Building Committee has posted updated site plans for the new Wellington Elementary School on its Web site.
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The New School of School Committee
Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7:30 in the Chenery Middle School Community Room, the School Committee will be holding the first of a series of Workshops to provide for more open dialog with the community.
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Summit on Wellington traffic, safety issues Wednesday
One area of discussion and concern with the New Wellington is with the impact of the siting of the building on parking and drop-off/pick up space. Some neighbors have voiced strong concerns about traffic on adjoining streets, and fire and public safety officials want to make sure that the new school will be easily...
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Obama’s radical message to kids? Dream big. Study hard. Don’t quit!
The rancor over President Obama's speech to children tomorrow doesn't reflect well on either side. As is often the case in brush ups like this, the needs and opinions of the kids in question have been pushed to the side...the better to clear space for the grown ups to fight. Hopefully President Obama's...
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Comparing stimulus plans: Great Depression vs. Great Recession
$38 million in federal stimulus funds for Belmont? You betcha! That was the value, in today's dollars, of a town plan, approved by the federal government, to rapidly modernize Belmont after World War II.
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Are textbooks going the way of the horse and buggy?
An interesting article in yesterday's New York Times on changes coming to a classroom near you: digital textbooks. The article, by Tamar Lewin, talks about pilot projects in school districts in Arizona, Louisiana and California that are replacing traditional printed textbooks with online, digital equivalents, or even "open source" texts compiled from materials and...
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Teaching jobs in Belmont: tougher (much) than getting into Harvard
At Winn Brook Elementary, for example, Principal Janet Carey wrote this week that she fielded around 700 applications for four open positions at that school to replace retiring staff or accomodate larger than expected classes: one first grade teacher, two, fourth grade teachers and an art teacher. That's 175 applicants per position, or an...
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Wellington goodness…not so good
I've heard from the Wellington Building Committee that my recent post on Wellington goodness which presented some artist's renderings and site plans for the new Wellington Elementary presented site plans that are not the latest and greatest and that there's some confusion about some of the content of those drawings. I've been asked to...
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