NEW BEDFORD Beginning Monday, March 1, New Bedford Public Schools will transition
elementary students
back into the building for in-person instruction.
This process will begin with seven elementary schools in the district: Carney, Gomes, Hayden-McFadden, Renaissance, Rodman, Taylor and Winslow. Each school has been working with their parent community for the notification of which grade levels are starting. Cohort A is comprised of students in specialized, substantially-separate education that have been attending school in person five days per week since the start of the school year.
Beginning next week, these seven elementary schools will begin to expand Cohort A to students in Cohorts B and C and prioritize those
New Bedford Schools Announce Increase to In-Person Learning
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Public Schools is set to launch the next phase of increased in-person instruction in classrooms, Superintendent Thomas Anderson announced at an outdoor press conference today at the Alfred J. Gomes School.
This new phase in the district’s year-long comprehensive response to prioritize the health and safety of all students and staff will start on Monday, March 1, 2021, beginning initially with seven elementary schools – Carney, Gomes, Hayden-McFadden, Renaissance, Rodman, Taylor and Winslow. Each school has been working with their parent community for the notification of which grade levels.
“We are excited to be able to expand Cohort A, which has been five days in-person since September. This expansion will include a range of grades, but the priority starts with kindergarten and first grade,” Anderson said. “Schools are assessing class sizes, space, and other factors to consider other gr
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It began with a fundraiser last March, called FaceTime for Nana, in which a New Bedford Public Schools nurse and a speech therapist teamed up to raise more than $6,000 to purchase iPads for those in nursing homes who could not have family visit at the beginning of the pandemic. The fundraiser granted 20 iPads to Autumn Glen’s memory unit in Dartmouth and Alden Court Nursing Care and Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center in Fairhaven.
Massachusetts school closings, delays and remote learning for Monday, Feb. 8
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
After a winter storm dumped as much as a foot of snow on parts of Massachusetts over the weekend, some school districts announced closures, delays or remote learning schedules for Monday, Feb. 8.
Amid the snowstorm Sunday, communities in Norfolk County recorded as much as 12 inches of snow, and the National Weather Service expanded its winter storm warning in the afternoon to encompass areas around Boston, Cape Cod and Plymouth.
The following are the public schools that have announced changes to their schedules for Monday. The list is updated as school districts announce changes. MassLive can be contacted about the listing at newstips@masslive.com.