Linda Chow
Background and experience
I have been deeply involved in educational issues for years, both in a professional capacity in higher education and also as a volunteer, having led boards such as the Wellesley Education Foundation and Wellesley Scholarship Foundation. In 2018, I was elected to School Committee and currently serve as Chair. Supporting the WPS mission is complex and involves navigating ever-evolving challenges. I am honored to serve on a Committee that works through issues in a thoughtful, collaborative way and am grateful to work alongside a dedicated team of administrators and educators. During my time on the Committee, we have:
Fort River Elementary School building plans advance in Amherst
Fort River Elementary School
Published: 2/12/2021 10:52:49 AM
AMHERST An expanded, renovated or rebuilt Fort River Elementary School, with significant financial support from the state, is moving to the feasibility stage.
The board of directors for the Massachusetts School Building Authority on Thursday invited Amherst, as well as Maynard and Winchester, into the next step in the process of getting a school project completed.
“These feasibility studies will carefully examine potential solutions to the issues identified at the school facilities and will help us develop the most cost-effective plan to address those issues,” State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg, chairwoman of the MSBA, said in a statement.
FROM THE MAYOR S OFFICE: A New Countryside School?
Community Content
The city of Newton and the Newton Public Schools continue to plan for the renovation and renewal of our school buildings.
As part of this process, we often look for financial help from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA). In recent years we have worked very successfully with the MSBA on the Angier and Cabot Elementary Schools to design and build excellent educational facilities on budget.
The first step in the MSBA process is indicating that the City of Newton and NPS are interested in rebuilding. We did just that for both the Franklin and Countryside Elementary Schools a year ago. These Statements of Interests were submitted with the unanimous support of the City Council and School Committee to the MSBA through their CORE grant program. The MSBA CORE grant program provides funding for municipalities throughout the Commonwealth who are seeking to complete renovations and rebuilds of schools.
BROCKTON While new high schools have been constructed in many towns surrounding the city in the past couple of decades, Brockton High School remains largely the same since it was built in 1970.
That could change this decade, though, as Brockton Public Schools officials hope to be accepted into the Massachusetts School Building Authority s repair program, having submitted a statement of interest early in 2020.
And the district has taken a significant step forward in that process after the Massachusetts School Building Authority recently moved Brockton into its site visit phase. I don t want to speak prematurely, but I think we have a good shot at this, as we ve seen all of our adjacent towns have all new high schools built over the last 10 years, Superintendent Michael Thomas said. . I have high hopes for our application with the MSBA.
ORLEANS A joint meeting addressed a range of issues Wednesday about the $131.8 million high school project in the lead-up to a districtwide vote March 30.
Two questions will go before voters: Will they support the Nauset Regional High School building project and the debt it will incur? And will they approve a debt override to pay for it?
If the school project passes and the debt question fails, Orleans will have a $1 million budget deficit, Town Administrator John Kelly said during the meeting between the Nauset Regional School Committee, Select Board and Finance Committee.
“Hopefully, voters understand that if they vote in favor of the project, they need to vote yes on both,” he said. “This is not like a Town Meeting vote that’s contingent on a debt exclusion question passing. The debt exclusion and school project must pass on their own merits.”