Browse past news stories for Newton School in Greenfield, MA.
- Weapon found at Granby school (2024)
Administrators with East Newton Schools confirm a weapon was found and confiscated on ... - Newton School launches ‘Newton Edge Programme’ on DSA, system design & Gen-AI (2023)
The six month long curriculum claims to provide a knowledge from basic to advanced ... - Newton School introduces certificate course in data science (2023)
The 8-14 month course aims to cover the basics of data science and analytics, ... - Newton Schools: Skunk situation ‘slowly improving,’ track reopened (2022)
The Newton school district on Wednesday, Aug. 3, provided an update to a ... - Newton School Committee approves indoor mask-wearing requirement for students, staff, and visitors (2021)
Newton’s School Committee Tuesday night voted to implement an indoor mask-wearing requirement for students, ... - 10-year-old girl who walked away from Newton school found safe, police say (2021)
NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A 10-year-old girl who walked away from her ... - Newton Schools Prepare Plans To Open In September (2020)
On the heels of new state guidance, Newton is preparing ... - Newton School Committee Chair: No Teacher Deal 'Frustrating' (2019)
Newton School Committee Chair Ruth Goldman pledges to continue to work with Newton Teachers ... - Newton School Committee extends contract of superintendent - Wicked Local Newton (2016)
Superintendent here since 2010, Fleishman's contract was renewed by the School Committee Monday night. The extension begins July 1, 2017 and expires June 30, 2021. Fle ... - Newton School Calendar: 10 Important Dates This Fall - Patch.com (2016)
NEWTON, MA – The 2016-17 school year is nearly upon us, and we're all checking off those last-minute items on our back-to-school list. With that comes making ... - Newton school system enrolls more than 15000 students - Rockdale Citizen (2016)
COVINGTON — Students in Newton County schools are seeing some changes this school year, including new teachers, expanded programs and more opportunities for students ... - Newton school employees getting help with health care costs - KSN-TV (2016)
NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Newton school district is making changes it hopes will help show its support for district employees. The school board in Newton vo ... - Newton schools registration is online only - Newton Daily News (2016)
Those registration sessions will be done in person for Berg Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders and Newton High School early next month. Guidance counselors ... - Rally Thursday for Newton School Custodians - Patch.com (2016)
"Our goal is to broaden our outreach beyond the Newton School Committee to Newton residents unfamiliar with Newton School Committee's apparent deter ... - Documents: Latest Burr water tests find lead in water entering Newton school - Wicked Local (2016)
The latest round of water tests at Burr Elementary School found elevated levels of lead in the main service line entering the school, and in water coming out of the pipes at two ... - State to move forward with complaint against Newton School Committee by custodians - Wicked Local (2016)
The state Department of Labor Relations found probable cause to move forward with a complaint that the School Committee committed "prohibited practices" in its collect ... - Newton school principal says goodbye after 21 years - Wicked Local (2016)
Newton Centre's Mason-Rice is a special place, according to Springer. It is the highest performing school on the MCAS tests in the entire state, but that isn' ... - Independent firm to test water in Newton schools - The Boston Globe (2016)
NEWTON — The city has hired an independent firm to do lead testing in each of the public schools and to track the data so it will be easy to retrieve and analyze in the future, Mayor Setti Warren sa ... - More fountains at Newton school found with high lead levels - The Boston Globe (2016)
Patch.comAdditional testing at Burr Elementary School in Newton has found high lead levels at five out of seven drinking fountains, according to a letter sent to families Wednesday from Principal Mindy Johal. Samples ... - Humpty Dumpty sits atop Newton school debate - The Boston Globe (2016)
Now that historic facade — the nursery rhyme hero included — perches at the center of a debate over how to renovate and expand the outdated elem ... - Newton School System sets re-test dates for Milestones - Rockdale Citizen (2016)
The Newton County School System will administer retests for Georgia Milestones End of Grade assessments May 18-24 to students in grades three, five and eight who ... - No bullet holes found in Newton school bus, search still underway for suspect - KWCH (2016)
Newton Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Deborah Hamm says the bus was east on Hwy-50, around 3 p.m., when the reported shooting occurred. The bus driver stated she saw a gun and heard one gun shot. Hamm says the bus was en route to Walton ...Newton school bus shot at Tuesday a ... - Newton School System awaits Milestones feedback - newtoncitizen (2016)
COVINGTON — It won't be known for several months how many students in the Newton County School System were affected by technology glitches during last month's administration of the Georgi ... - Newton School Committee Notebook: Autism on the rise - Wicked Local (2016)
From the School Committee's Monday, May 9 meeting: The number of students with neurological and autism disorders is on the rise in Newton, but the number of students ... - Lapses cited after graffiti found at Newton school - The Boston Globe (2016)
An independent investigation into two incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti at Day Middle School in Newton confirmed that the principal did not notify central school admin ... - Newton school district ponders charging $200 a month for all-day kindergarten - Topeka Capital Journal (2016)
NEWTON — Another Kansas school district is considering charging parents for all-day kindergarten. KSNW-TV (http://bit.ly/1SpgKi7 ) reports that the Newton district in south-central Kansas is looking into a $200-a-month ... - Newton School Committee gives green light to $211M budget plan - Wicked Local (2016)
From the School Committee's Monday, April 11 meeting: Budget gets green light. The School Committee unanimously approved a proposed $211 million budget ... - Newton schools superintendent, Jewish groups denounce behavior of protestors at meeting on prejudice - Boston.com (2016)
Newton's superintendent of schools denounced the “uncivil†... - Newton school district plans for the future - Newton Kansan (2016)
As technology becomes more cutting edge and educational philosophies continue to evolve, members of USD 373 leadership are opening up all channels of co ... - Newton School Committee Notebook - Wicked Local (2016)
From the School Committee's Monday, Feb. 29 meeting: Sunny side at South. The proposal to put solar panels in the Newton South parking lo ... - Donor to match $25K to Newton Schools Foundation for Calculus Project - Wicked Local (2016)
An anonymous donor has agreed to match up to $25,000 in donations to the Newton Schools Foundation during the month of March to support the Calculus Project. Th ... - Allen made three stops at Newton schools - Newton Daily News (2015)
Newton Community School District Superintendent Bob Callaghan was among a Newton contingent that met with Allen and other state leaders in Des Moines on Jan. ... - Teachers honored by Newton School Board - Newton Daily News (2015)
“'The Newton schools should feel very proud to have such a gr ...
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