Stories related to Southborough Public Schools, Algonquin Regional High School, and Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School.
The Southborough School Committee voted to approve a recommended budget for FY16. The K-8 budget calls for a 3.49% increase over this year. Read the full article → from School Committee recap: “Responsible” recommended budget and other school news (Updated)
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School students spent this last Saturday helping out Southborough Boy Scouts from Troop 1. Read the full article → from Photo Gallery: AVRT students and cadets work with Southborough scouts
A movement to implement tuition-free full day kindergarten in town may be gaining traction. Read the full article → from SWL: Superintendent says time to discuss free full day kindergarten
Southborough & Northborough schools will have a two hour delay tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10. Read the full article → from Delayed school opening Tuesday
A list of board and committee meetings for the week. Read the full article → from The week in government (2/9-2/15/15): Update on Affordable Housing Plan; Kindergroup Study Update
Some of you may not know about a legal battle between Southborough and Northborough over the high school construction costs. “Others may wonder, whatever happened with that?”
Telegram.com reports that the long running dispute has finally been resolved. Read the full article → from telegram: Southborough to pay Northborough $1.7 million for ARHS construction dispute (Updated)
For the 5th time in two weeks, school in Southborough has been cancelled. Read the full article → from No school on Monday (Updated )
Two messages from the district invite community members who care about Southbough’s K-12 schools to participate in district decisions. Read the full article → from School invitations: Technology survey and Support Services search committee
This month, Southborough begin filling out applications for town scholarships. Meanwhile, the committee responsible for granting them publicly announced they are under-resourced. Read the full article → from Scholarship Committee “desperate” for help
Trevor Fuce of the Algonquin Tomohawks has been recruited by the University of Maine. Read the full article → from T-Hawk to become Black Bear
The good news is there won’t be a 5 AM wake up call cancelling school. The bad news is that the call came in tonight. As announced once again by superintendent Christine Johnson, Southborough and Northborough will not have school on Tuesday. This is the 4th snow day this year. It means the school year Read the full article → from No school Tuesday
Just got the official phone call. As announced by superintendent Christine Johnson, Southborough and Northborough will not have school on Monday. Children rejoice. Parents grieve for their sanity. (Or am I alone in that?) Afternoon programs will also be cancelled. This is the 3rd snow day this year. It means the school year won’t be Read the full article → from No school on Monday (Updated)
The Board of Selectmen need three residents to volunteer for the Naming Subcommittee for ARHS. Read the full article → from Help dedicate (parts of) Algonquin to those “who have made extraordinary contributions”
On Tuesday night, the Board of Selectmen got another update on the FY16 budgets. It was a more positive outlook than they were given in December. Read the full article → from More on Southborough’s preliminary budgets – Town and K-8