GREENFIELD Karin Patenaude, principal of Greenfield High School, has been appointed assistant superintendent of teaching and learning with the Greenfield School Department.“I consider this to be a huge win both for Greenfield and for Karin.
GREENFIELD With the final few candidates scheduled to be interviewed this week, the Superintendent Search Committee is aiming to present a list of finalists to the School Committee next week. “We have some very strong people who have great ideas.
Greenfield School Committee talks construction, choice numbers and communications
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Sanderson Street near the Greenfield Middle School, where a large reconstruction project will begin in spring 2022. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 5/13/2021 4:36:51 PM
GREENFIELD Department of Public Works Director Marlo Warner informed School Committee members and school administrators this week that the Sanderson Street reconstruction project, which will begin in the spring or summer of 2022, will impact Greenfield Middle School.
Speaking to the School Committee during its Wednesday night meeting, Warner said the “major project” that will cost the city $1.5 million will affect everyone on Sanderson Street from Federal to High streets, and then High Street to Parkway Street just below the mountain on which Poet’s Seat Tower sits.
Greenfield schools seek $20.4M budget
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Published: 4/28/2021 5:00:19 PM
GREENFIELD Greenfield School Department Interim Superintendent Judith Houle presented to the City Council Ways and Means Committee this week a proposed $22.8 million budget for fiscal year 2022 with a $2.4 million offset of grants and revolving funds, reducing the total budget to $20.4 million.
Houle said that number is a 3.83 percent increase from this year’s $19.7 million budget, or $753,931. She said the district fully expects that all schools will be open full-time in the fall currently, all schools are back to in-person learning, but parents have the option of keeping their children home to learn remotely. Per state guidelines, they won’t have that option in the fall.
Greenfield teachers’ union disappointed in lack of school reopening plan
Greenfield High School’s main entrance. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 3/17/2021 5:09:59 PM
GREENFIELD The president of the Greenfield School Department’s teachers’ union says staff and families are still waiting for a reopening plan from administrators.
According to Paul DeMarco, a field representative with the Massachusetts Teachers Association in Holyoke, despite attempts by the Greenfield Education Association to negotiate an agreement with the School Committee for the April 5 return to full in-person learning for elementary students, educators said the district remains unprepared.
“We’re 100 percent focused on a safe return to school for our kids, so it’s incredibly disappointing that the School Committee still has no plan, not even a draft plan,” Greenfield Education Association President Ann Valentine said. “They sent us an email claiming that ‘site-based teams with teacher