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Chicopee Comprehensive High to add preschool Updated 5:51 AM; Facebook Share CHICOPEE Comprehensive High School is expecting to add a new class for the fall, but the students won’t graduate in four years, five years or even in a decade. Educators are planning to begin a preschool program for 3- and 4-year-old children similar to one already offered at Chicopee High School, Principal Andrew Lamothe said. The program will fill two needs. Along with providing convenient and high-quality early childhood education for children of city staff, it is designed to give high school students who are taking child development classes some hands-on experience observing and working with young children, he said. ....
Construction delays prevent opening of Chicopee elementary school, children moved to other buildings to meet state mandate Updated Apr 02, 2021; Facebook Share CHICOPEE – Construction delays are causing students from one school to be shifted to two other buildings, as the state orders elementary-aged children to return to full-time classes next week. Air quality testing in Chicopee schools this summer uncovered inadequate ventilation at Patrick E. Bowe School, forcing the city to replace the entire system before children returned to class during the COVID-19 pandemic. Work on the about $600,000 project began in the fall and original projections estimated construction would be completed in early February. Now that has been pushed back until mid-May if everything goes well. ....
After almost a year of remote learning, some Chicopee students start in-person classes Monday Updated Feb 20, 2021; CHICOPEE City students, many of whom have not been in a school in nearly a year, will return to some in-person learning Monday under a system that will mix classes at schools with remote lessons. The School Committee voted last week to change to a hybrid model after the idea was recommended by a task force of educators, parents and students and then sent to a separate implementation committee of administrators, School Committee members and the executive committee of the Chicopee Education Association. Although some educators aired concerns about returning to the classroom before vaccines are widely available, this week the members of the Chicopee Education Association approved the change with 79% who cast ballots voting in favor. The decision allows the change to take place at the start of the second half of the school year, Superintendent Lynn A. ....
Construction to prevent 1 Chicopee school from resuming in-person classes next week Updated Feb 15, 2021; Facebook Share CHICOPEE – Nearly all students will return to in-person classes two days next week under a recently-approved plan, but the reopening in one of the city’s oldest schools will be delayed until at least the beginning of April. When the city began testing air quality in all the schools over the summer, officials learned the ventilation system at Patrick E. Bowe School was very poor and had to be replaced before students and teachers could return to the school during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Bowe School is under construction so second through fifth graders will not start until around the first week in April,” Principal David Drugan said. ....