Friday, March 1, 2013
While impact on town is limited, Belmont schools could feel the brunt of a long, drawn-out fight in Washington.
Is a potential cut in federal spending to local education of a mere six percent really going to effect the education of Belmont students? Belmont Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston will tell those who ask, that, "Indeed, it does." As the deadlock between President Obama and Republicans in the House of Representatives appears likely to continue pass the Friday, March 1, deadline for the federal budget to make the automatic spending cuts under sequestration both sides eagerly agreed to in 2011, officials in school districts across the country are being told that annual federal grants will be hit by the coming sequester which could last until summer if not longer. "The political logjam in Washington has direct, local consequences," wrote …
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Belmont Town Hall
455 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Belmont School Superintendent's Office
644 Pleasant St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
No increase in pay for interim superintendent.
Caution: Thomas Kingston can become habit forming. What in the summer of 2011 was hoped to be a short-term appointment was officially lengthened for a second time as the Belmont School Committee voted unanimously Tuesday, Jan. 29 to extended the stay of "interim" Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston for an additional year. The Arlington-native, who retired from leading the Chelsea School in 2011, will now lead the Belmont School District until June 2014. "We are very grateful" that Kingston accepted the extension of his contract, said School Committee Chairwoman Laurie Graham, "but I want to nail this down quickly before he changes his mind." Under his new contract, Kingston will receive the same $150,000 annual salary since accepting the …
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W. L. Chenery Middle School
95 Washington St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Strong barriers and procedures only go so far; no school is "100 percent safe."
The staff and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. did everything right last Friday. Just after 9:30 a.m., as a stranger unknown to the school's office staff approached the main entrance carrying a high-powered rifle, the front doors were locked as part of a recently-installed buzzer system at the only public entry. A 9-1-1 call went out while teachers and their aids directing children into safe areas in classrooms and began locking the doors as Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Sandy Hook's school psychologist, confronted the gun-touting man. And still 20 first-graders, four teachers and aids along with Hochsprung and Sherlach were gunned down in the second worst school massacre on US soil. So …
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W. L. Chenery Middle School
95 Washington St, Belmont, MA
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Mary Lee Burbank Elementary School
266 School St, Belmont, MA
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Winn Brook Elementary School
97 Waterhouse Rd, Belmont, MA
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Daniel Butler Elementary School
90 White St, Belmont, MA
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Lisa Gibalerio
9:19 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
Excellent news for Belmont! more ›