With the new school year underway, the Nashua School District has put together a calendar of the open houses that will be held at each school.
Open houses give parents an opportunity to meet their child’s teacher face to face and ask questions.

This story was just too bizarre to go without mentioning.
According to a column in today’s Boston Herald by Darren Garnick (also a correspondent for The Telegraph), the Philadelphia school board is set to vote tonight on a proposal to allow for an A&E reality show called “Teach” to be filmed in one of the city’s schools.
OK, a reality show about life in the [...]

The Eagle-Tribune published a story Monday asking North Andover, Mass. school and town officials about whether they were concerned about their new superintendent and business administrator leaving a $3.3 million shortfall in their previous school district.
The short answer? No.
“It doesn’t seem applicable to our situation here,” Town Manager Mark Rees told the Eagle-Tribune. “I’ve had conversations with [...]

Reading from a prepared statement at last night’s meeting to discuss the $3.36 million deficit, Board of Education member Robert Hallowell said “school district administration and the Board of Education failed in our duty to monitor and anticipate fiscal conditions - there is no way around that.”
Hallowell appeared to become emotional several times as he [...]

Monday night, the Board of Education approved the recommended appointments and salaries for principals and assistant principals for the 2009-10 school year. Here they are:
Approval of the Superintendent’s Elementary Assistant Principal Assignments for the 2009-10 school year as follows:
a.       Tracey Cassady, Charlotte Avenue School and Dr. Crisp School
b.       Karen Crebase, New Searles School
c.        Patricia Flynn, [...]

Responding to today’s Learning Curve column about year-round education, a helpful reader pointed out that it was in the 1970s when Alvirne High School in Hudson experimented with this very type of format.
Teresa Stewart, class of 1975, wrote: “Alvirne High School had a year round program in the 70’s.  We went year round due to over crowding, the [...]

After learning today that the state’s Postsecondary Education Commission had approved the proposed sale of Daniel Webster College to the for-profit ITT Tech, I placed a call to the college’s media relations department for a comment and an update on where the transaction now stands.
Lisa Cramb, the college’s director of media relations, informed me that the college was [...]