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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Category: Local Education
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With the election about 8 weeks away, there’s a lot of available “information”, and I use that term lightly, about Ballot Question 2 (Balletopedia website for detailed text and Pro/Con Arguments). For anyone who may have missed it, Ballot Question 2 favors lifting the current cap on charter schools allowing up to an additional 12 new charter schools…
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I’m really excited about this project! When the American Federation of Teachers-Massachusetts (AFT-MA), our local union’s state affiliate, approached our local union a year ago about hosting a First Book/AFT Books on Wheels event, we were intrigued, but the timing was just not right. We may have had to put the project on a back…
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Recently, the Boston Globe published a letter from Joy Robinson-Lynch positing that if Boston needs more available spots in classical education schools (like Boston Latin), the school department might consider creating them. After all, Boston Public Schools certainly know how to run a successful classical education institution – they’ve had years to practice and refine that. Framing that…
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School Committee Meeting, 18 May 2016 All present Between Tuesday’s City Council Meeting and Wednesday’s School Committee Meeting, Mayor Kennedy has done a yeoman’s job of navigating through some very highly charged Public Comment sessions. The agenda included a Public Hearing on Inter-District School Choice which quickly morphed into comment on Item 10, the Policy…
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School Committee Public Budget Hearing, Part 2 11 May 2015 All members present. The Budget Hearing was taped for later broadcast. The originally proposed budget can be found on the LPS website here. Changed budget allocations will hopefully be published sooner rather than later because there were many, MANY changes as the budget numbers were…
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School Committee Public Budget Hearing 09 May 2015 [EDITED TO INCLUDE] LTC Taped the hearing and it can be found on this weblink. Click on May 9 videolink. All members present. The Budget Hearing was taped for later broadcast. The originally proposed budget can be found on the LPS website here. The Finance Department link…
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School Committee Meeting, 04 May 2016 Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 04 May 2016 All members present This was a marathon session, especially for School Committee members present for both the regular meeting and finance subcommittee Q&A session, as well as the school department personnel. An executive session was sandwiched in between the two public meetings –…
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Driven by an $18 million advertising campaign, those in favor of lifting the current cap on charter school seats have launched an all-out effort to increase the number of seats allocated to charter schools. This ballot initiative is one of several state-driven mandates, ruling, issues – whatever you choose to call them – that is spurring Lowellians to…
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