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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Belmont Superintendent Blasts BHS Accreditation Report

While the final report is allegedly riddled with errors, the conclusion is "set in stone."

In a blistering public attack, Belmont School Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston alleged the final report by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in its accreditation review of Belmont High School is based on "egregiuous caricatures, exaggerations(,) and outright falsehoods" and the end product "is overdue, the writing infelicitous." Read the letter and the final NEASC report on this web page. In remarks in a letter addressed to the "citizens of Belmont" and the Belmont School Committee and read at Tuesday's School Committee meeting, Dec. 4, Kingston – Belmont's interim superintendent since 2011 – said the district's experience in which he believes the accreditation team used out-of-date data, made false assumptions and …

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