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Waterford ― The Representative Town Meeting voted Monday night to approve a three-year contract that will raise teacher salaries 2.57% in the first year, then 2.95% in both the second and third years....

Waterford ― The town has agreed to spend $1.98 million to install additional safety features at town buildings and schools. The upgrades will include about 550 new security cameras, playground fencin...

After feeling burnt out, Nori Lembree took a leave of absence from her job as a teacher in Stonington and went to Ecuador. Lembree, who taught Spanish at Stonington High School for 11 years and visite...

With the first day of classes just one week away, Waterford’s superintendent identified mental health as one of the district’s major priorities for the...

School systems changed their policies and buildings to make students safer after the 2012 shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary

Coming out of the holiday break, many districts across the region are similarly dealing with a shortage of teachers, substitutes and bus drivers.

Coming out of the holiday break, many districts across the region are similarly dealing with a shortage of teachers, substitutes and bus drivers.

The state is requiring districts to provide high school electives that center on...

Waterford — The decision by 10 Republican members of the Representative Town Meeting to abstain from voting on a new school administrators contract has put them at odds with their Democratic counterparts.   During the RTM’s Jan. 4 meeting members voted 7-2 to approve the one-year contract, with 10 abstentions from Republicans. Two of the abstentions were from members who said they have conflicts of interest with the school district. But the other eight were unexplained.  The ...

Waterford – The Representative Town Meeting has approved a one-year contract with the Waterford Administrators’ and Supervisors Association, one of several unions representing school employees. The new contract and its 2.1% raise was the result of a November mediation session between the Board of Education and the union. The contract takes effect July 1 and ends June 30, 2022. The total salary for the 10 union members during that time will be $1,525,104.  The employees include t...