Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Claremont

Beyond the comments I've already made, there isn't much any of us can say, due to it being in negotiations and thus in executive session. I post the following for those interested:

Here is the memo that went to Claremont's faculty yesterday.

Here is the letter that went to parents yesterday.

UPDATE: Two points of clarification, as I keep seeing and hearing questions on these:
  • teachers have contracts with the district, not with the school, thus the reapplication is to teaching at Claremont, not to teaching in WPS at all. (No one is being fired; this is called "involuntary transfer" per the contract.)
  • as of right now, there are no layoffs projected for secondary teachers for FY13; we need to keep the teachers we have to serve the number of students we have. 
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2 comments:

  1. Sean DaceyApril 11, 2012 at 10:13 PM

    How exactly is the school going to be heterogeneous and all honors? Will there be an application process?

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  2. Tracy NovickApril 18, 2012 at 8:38 PM

    Hey, Sean, sorry to take forever to get back to you (and good post on this). No, admissions will be the same as it is now. It's in some ways an extension of what's been done at UPCS (which, yes, has an application process, but doesn't admit by solely on academic grounds) or at the high schools that have been extending APs more widely. You'll see that there's a proposal by administration before the School Committee this spring to do change the requirements for admission to APs with that in mind.

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