Word on the street is that, after months of back and forth, the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve funding for reconstruction of the Wellington Elementary school. Next up: a vote by the town (within 120 days) on a debt exclusion to fund construction.
Want to be a part of the grass roots? Together for Wellington, the citizen's group that supports the construction of a new Wellington Elementary School, is looking for volunteers to help us do some canvassing and voter identification both in Prencinct 8 and in other precincts.
It's intended to provide an economic stimulus, but the end result of emergency federal funding in Belmont may be to get the town's schools back to level funding, according to a story in today's Belmont Citizen Herald.
The town's older schools are going to require capital investments that are 10x to 20x greater than the one new school (Chenery) in the next few years...and these are just the repairs that we know about.
A town-wide vote on a debt exclusion for the construction of a new Wellington Elementary school is unlikely to coincide with this November’s general election, according to a story posted on The Belmont Citizen Herald’s Web page. BCH editors and reporters interviewed State Treasurer Tim Cahill and other members of the State’s School Building...
This is the final part of a three-part interview with outgoing Schools Superintendent Peter Holland. The first part of the interview can be read by clicking this link, and the second installment is available here. In this post, Peter and I talk about the recent controversy over pay raises to two school administrators: Assistant...
Our virtual, behind the scenes tour of Wellington School wraps up today with two videos. In the first, Karen and Bob Martin from BPS, take us down to the basement of Wellington to look at some more substandard classroom space, including a classroom that has no windows. One note: this room is currently being...
In Part II of our behind the scenes, raw and unedited tour of Wellington Elementary, we go with Wellington parent Karen Parmett to one of the kindergarten classrooms where 23 kids cram into a ca. 1960s classroom that’s just 700 square feet — around 25% smaller than Mass. State guidelines. And its cold, to...
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