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Greenfield School Committee talks construction, choice numbers and communications HOULE 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 m...

Greenfield schools seek $20.4M budget HOULE 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 ar...

Murfreesboro City Schools more than doubled its 750-student registration goal for summer school and set plans for the spring TNReady assessment week. MCS Director Trey Duke, who was recognized for recently receiving his doctoral title, gave an update on where the school district stands with the upcoming summer school session during its meeting last week. The district has had 2,000 students register for summer school as of the registration end date of April 9. That is 1,250 more students than it had initially planned to register. The district also had 200 teachers committed to teaching this su...

The Murfreesboro City Council approved a construction contract to begin work on the Mercury Boulevard Sidewalk Project and agreed to match funds for the Discovery School’s asphalt track. City Engineer Chris Griffith presented the updates on bids, engineering services and construction materials for the sidewalk project at last Thursday’s meeting. The low bidder for the project is Charles Deweese Construction of Franklin, Ky., for $1,100,292, according to Griffith. TDOT also awarded some money, which city engineers estimate to be just over $1.3 million. “The city has been obligat...

Greenfield School Committee begins talks on redrawing district map WALL Published: 3/11/2021 4:55:16 PM GREENFIELD — The School Committee has begun discussions about how it might redraw school district maps to make which elementary school a student attends more equitable. Redrawing school district maps would mean moving students into one building and deciding what would be done with the other buildings. Currently, elementary school students attend one of the following schools: Newton, Green River (which is currently closed), Federal Street and The Discovery School at Four Corners. School C...