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Martha’s Vineyard public schools are experiencing a two-hour delay on Tuesday. According to Martha’s Vineyard assistant superintendent John Stevens, the delays were due to the Vineyard accumulating two inches of snow. Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School also implemented a two-hour delay, according to MVPCS director Peter Steedman.

‘It takes a village” might sound a little clichéd, but it’s what comes to mind when learning about the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School (MVPCS) mentorship program. Twenty-two ninth- and tenth-grade students work one-on-one with mentors for two hours every Wednesday. The program stalled when COVID hit, but Peter Steedman, MVPCS director, says, “Now it’s […]

The African American Heritage Trail and the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School began an exciting collaboration in 2020, when Deirdre Brown’s history classes worked with the trail to clean and restore the Old Marine Cemetery in Oak Bluffs. Brown’s landscaping expertise was very valuable as years of undergrowth were cut back to reveal a clear […]

Spinning kicks, rhythmic steps, and Portuguese lyrics filled the hall as members of Boston-based Sinhá Capoeira performed for and taught students from Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School (MVPCS).  A Times reporter observed a performance and a class for the Charter School’s middle and high school students on Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural […]

Officials at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School are reporting one case of chickenpox among the student population. School director Peter Steedman sent a letter to parents on Wednesday following the report of the case, providing guidance to families to take precautions. “We have consulted with epidemiologists at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, local […]

In averages of state statistics from the last three years, several Vineyard elementary schools have some of Massachusetts’ highest rates of kindergartners exempt from at least one immunization.  According to data compiled by the Boston Globe, the Chilmark School has the state’s second-highest rate. About 23 percent of kindergartners at the up-Island school received exemptions […]

Lama Tenzin Yignyen returned to Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School (MVPCS), through a donation from the Sound Foundation, to create a sand mandala and teach the students about compassion. Students stopped by Yignyen’s station between classes to talk and make sand designs of their own on a separate table using funnels, like animals and greetings […]

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released the 2022 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test results on Thursday, Sept. 29. According to the press release, these results provide the state with “its second overview of statewide learning since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.”  According to the release, the results from the […]

Vineyarders moved their feet and hips to the rhythm of Senagalese drummer Aba Diop’s drumming with encouragement from Senegalese dancer Bakary Fall in front of Tisbury Water Work’s Tashmoo Springs Building. Thursday’s event was a collaboration between Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and Pathways Arts in Chilmark.  A welcome was given by Pathways Arts director […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School held its 2022 commencement ceremony on Sunday, graduating 15 seniors. Friends and family, Charter School teachers and staff along with younger members of the school body all met under a high white tent decorated with pastel colored tapestries on the warm and sunny West Tisbury day.  Graduates entered to […]