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Sharon Superintendent Accuses School Committee of Racial Discrimination After Being Placed on Leave
The Sharon School Committee has placed Superintendent Victoria Greer on administrative leave and won’t renew her contract for next year, the committee confirmed Wednesday evening, hours after Greer announced it. Greer, who is African American, told NBC10 Boston that she filed a charge against the school committee with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, alleging that she’d been subjected to...
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US School Districts Weigh Duty to Migrants in Shelters
When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...
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Colorado School District Introduces 4-Day Weeks to Cut Costs
Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...
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Hull School Committee Votes to Put Superintendent on Paid Leave
The school committee in Hull, Massachusetts, has voted unanimously to put the district’s superintendent on paid administrative leave. Michael Devine, who had served in his current role since 2017 following eight years as principal at Hull High School, is the subject of allegations of personal misconduct brought forth by the Hull School Committee. Judith Kuehn has taken over as acting…
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Hull School Committee Meets on Status of Superintendent
The Hull School Committee will hold an executive session on Wednesday to determine the status of superintendent Michael Devine, who has been relieved of his duties pending the outcome.
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Hull Superintendent on Leave Over Misconduct Allegation
The community of Hull, Massachusetts, is looking for answers after the superintendent of schools abruptly took a leave of absence and was relieved of his duties.
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RI Schools Mourn Supt. Barry Ricci
A Rhode Island school superintendent has died after his 18-month battle with brain cancer. Chariho Regional Schools Supt. Barry Ricci was at school on Friday and died Sunday evening at the age of 62. School leaders said Ricci was a no-nonsense educator who fought for his district, the Providence Journal reported. Ricci’s district included the towns of Charleston, Richmond and…
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‘She Thrives': Boston Police Superintendent Nora Baston
A native of Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, Nora Baston is the fourth woman to ever hold the post of Boston police superintendent. She was a standout athlete at the prestigious Boston Latin School and at UMass Lowell, but it has been her willingness to share the “not so great parts” of her rise to success that has made her the...
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Man Wanted in North Station Attack
MBTA Transit Police are looking for a man wanted for what authorities are calling an “unprovoked attack,” violently assaulting a woman around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at Boston’s North Station.
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Danvers Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Student
A teacher allegedly sexually assaulted a student at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School.
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Chemical Found in NH School's Drinking Water
A New Hampshire school district will test all its drinking water after one faucet was found to have high levels of a toxic chemical that has raised health concerns.
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Threatening, Vulgar Note Found in Wrentham School Bathroom
A threatening and vulgar note was found in a boys bathroom at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham on Friday, according to the school’s superintendent. A high school staff member found the note crumpled up behind a toilet in the bathroom Friday evening, police said. The note didn’t mention specific violent acts or weapons, but it did have threatening...
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NH Principal Resigns Months After Teacher Misconduct Charges
A New Hampshire high school principal has resigned months after he took a voluntary leave of absence during an investigation into his handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a teacher. The Concord School Board unanimously voted to accept Tom Sica’s resignation from Concord High School at its meeting Monday night. Sica’s resignation came three days after former Superintendent Terri Forsten...
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Dedham Public School Teachers Continue Strike
Teachers in Dedham are going into the weekend on strike.
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Roxbury Man Wanted in May Shooting Arrested in Atlanta
The Roxbury man wanted as the suspected in connection to the shooting death of Donnell Davis was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on bank robbery charges Wednesday, according to Boston police. The 24-year-old Ricardo Jamesy Washington will also be charged with murder and the unlawful possession of a firearm, police said. There is not yet a timetable for his return to...
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Andover High School Rock Controversy
Two high school students were suspended for painting a rock that’s often used for political expression.
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Vermont Town Bans Vaping in Certain Public Spaces
A town in Vermont’s Rutland County is about to ban vaping, as well as other tobacco use, in certain busy community spaces. The peaceful park in the center of Fair Haven will soon be off-limits to folks using e-cigarettes, after a vote from the town’s select board. At its last meeting, the board passed an ordinance banning all tobacco use...
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Vt. Community to Ban Vaping in Public Spaces
Amid public health concerns and nuisance complaints, a Vermont community will soon ban vaping in public spaces. Read More
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Shelton Student Allegedly Spits on Museum Visitor During School Trip
The principal of Shelton Intermediate School is speaking out after a group from the school was kicked out of a Washington D.C. museum.
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New Hampshire Teacher Accused of Cutting Student's Hair Resigns
A school official says a middle school teacher accused of cutting off several inches of a student’s hair after telling her to stop playing with it has resigned. Bob Gadomski, superintendent of the Somersworth school district, confirmed the resignation this week, Seacoastonline.com reports