Category Archives: schools

If you were planning on hitting any of the Wellesley School Committee meetings this week, note that some meetings have been pushed back to later in the week, with the School Committee now meeting Tuesday at 730pm to have a public hearing on the budget and to give an update on the school lunch program [...]

There’s too much junk in the athletic director’s trunk. Financial planning software is put in the hands of too few. The Business Office is crowded and a bottleneck. The Chartwells food service outfit deserves another chance. Those are some of the findings in a Massachusetts Association of School Business Officials audit of the Wellesley Public [...]

The Wellesley Public Schools have been prodded into divulging more and more info these days about its operations in the wake of the well documented negative series of events that have led to closer public inspection through audits and such groups as the Concerned Parents of Wellesley.  The latest: *School Superintendent Bella Wong during the [...]

A 4th grade teacher at Wellesley’s Upham Elementary School, returning from maternity leave in April, is on the hunt for temporary housing in the area and asked for our help in spreading the word. She’s looking for a furnished place (such as an in-law apartment or carriage house) to house  herself, her infant and husband [...]

The School Committee has announced that it wants to use an open and fair process to determine which parents will participate in each of the search activities. If you are interested in participating in a focus group or the advisory search committee (the public forum and parent survey will be open to everyone), please send [...]