Showing posts with label elementary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elementary. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Now there's a headline you won't see most places

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 I had to darkly laugh when I saw this headline in the T&G  last week : headline reads "City Council passes 90-day parking ban near...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Why do we always come here...on the FY25 WPS budget before Council

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Why do we always come here I guess we'll never know It's like a kind of torture To have to watch the show… from "The Muppet Sho...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

On FY23, as of the start of the fiscal year

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 ...budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of the prosperity of individuals, the relation of cl...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

elementary schools

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Request that the Administration review options for additional classrooms and instructional space, as needed, to include but not be limited t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

"No reduction of positions and no loss of programs or services for students" WPS FY16

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The FY16 budget is now out , and, having now had a chance to go through it, a few notes from me follow. ( Much of this can be found in the ...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Nelson Place VOTE

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Just starting the Nelson Place meeting on the design vote. You can find the presentation tonight here .  Full schematic design being submi...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

A few back to school notes

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Overall, a good first day! A few back to school notes from me: Did you get one? We have "please update and return" forms for the...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

We have a budget memo!

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You can find the budget memo we received from Superintendent Boone yesterday here. You can find last night's presentation to the City ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Public hearing on FY15 WPS budget

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plea to keep Fast ForWord program keep class sizes as low as possible for students query as to additional city contribution goes where? ...

reopening schools

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you can find the report here Allen: "kind of a realistic estimate of what it would take to reopen some of our schools" some of t...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WPS Instrument Lessons!

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One of the things we do that I'm most proud of: FREE instrument lesson s during the school day! The Worcester Public Schools is pleas...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Largest elementary enrollment changes for next year

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Schools with biggest enrollment increases for next year: Union Hill: 15.6% Chandler Elementary: 14.9% Wawecus: 12.3% Belmont Street: 11%...

Public testimony (updating as we go)

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updating as we go testimony from Flagg parent: which is projected to lose three teachers, which would be moved elsewhere
Saturday, May 11, 2013

FY14 Budget first read through

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I did my first read through of the FY14 budget last night; here are a preliminary summary: Much of the gap that sequestration left us is...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Not spending enough time on science

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...or enough training on math, are among the conclusions of this survey of elementary school teachers . The bit that jumped out at me: ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Instrument lessons

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...are available for free during the school day at all Worcester elementary schools except: Chandler Elementary Flagg Street Gates Lane...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Libraries

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...asking for a report on how many elementary libraries are open, how many hours, and who's doing the staffing at this point (We employ...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Here's the recommended allocation on $1.7 million

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  Note that all of the following is subject to School Committee allocation: Tonight, Superintendent Boone announced a recommendation to the...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The good news in brief

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$350,000 being cut from elsewhere in WPS budget to go to classrooms $350,000 coming from City Manager's discretionary and from WPD (not...

Councilors on the budget

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Councilor O'Brien: "I'm just trying to follow this math here..." Boone: "part of what we needed to do was address th...