Everything you want to know about the Newton Public School System in Newton, MA.
10 Best Massachusetts Public High Schools: U.S. News Rankings 2016
How did Newton High Schools do?
#26 Newton South High School
#39 Newton North High School
Each year, NFIB provides scholarships to 100 high school seniors who operate their own small business to promote the importance of entrepreneurship among young students. The awards, which can be applied to tuition and fees at any two or four-year College, University or technical and vocational school, range from between $2,000 and $25,000.
This year 95 students will receive $2,000 scholarships and five students will qualify for NFIB’s top two scholarships, the 2016 Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the Dan Danner Leadership Award. The winners will be announced at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. this June.
Here’s the list of NFIB’s Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs.
For more information, please visit www.NFIB.com/YEF
We’ve heard about families that spare no expense in creating unique opportunities for their children to shine in the competitive college application process. Parents on a budget are at a loss as to what they can do to help their kids stand out if they lack the funds to send their child to Botswana for preservation work to demonstrate their passion for the environment, or to swim the English Channel to show their perseverance. There are free and inexpensive ways to enable your child to demonstrate value to a college. Through planning, parents can maximize any budget to turn their high school student into a stand out applicant.
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College admissions strategist and author of Earning Admission: Real Strategies for Getting into Highly Selective Colleges, Greg Kaplan, advises to:
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If you can, bring: a rake, shovels, wheelbarrows, gloves, tarps, paint brushes, and drop cloths. If you can’t help out that day, send in doughnuts, water, coffee, fruit, or cookies to fuel the volunteers!
Another round of bomb threats were called in to Massachusetts high schools which included Newton South High School, Andover High School, Arlington High School, Arlington Catholic High School, Acton-Boxborough High School, Brookline High School, Danvers High School, Littleton High School, Marblehead High School, Melrose High School, Needham High School, Peabody High School, the Page Hilltop School in Ayer and Shawsheen Tech in Billerica.
For the second time this week, several schools confirmed receiving bomb threats via robocalls, according to officials. At least one school said it received a threat from a live person. From WCVB Channel 5
As of this writing, we are aware of 32 schools in Massachusetts that have received robo-call bomb threats today. The response to the threats is being handled, variously, by local police and fire departments, the State Police Bomb Squad, State Police patrols and K9 units, and the office of the State Fire Marshal. The threats are being tracked by State Police at the Commonwealth Fusion Center. For each threat, a risk assessment is performed and authorities are responding accordingly. No hazardous devices have been found at any sites as of this time. From MA State Police.
The threatening calls continue. Someone doesn’t like Mondays?
April 11, 2016
At 8am this morning we received a threatening phone call to the main office. At this time we have asked teachers to keep students in their classrooms and for teachers to inspect their classrooms for anything unusual or out of place. The Newton Police Department is here working with school officials to inspect common spaces and ensure the safety of our students. As always, student and staff safety is our utmost concern.
We will update you once we resume a normal schedule this morning.
Thanks,
Amy Winston
Vice Principal
8:40am
We have completed our search of the building and have asked students and teachers to resume a normal Monday schedule. All doors of the building are now opened. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Mr. Aronson or myself.
Thanks,
Amy Winston
Vice Principal
Learn how to determine if your child is ready to move on to pre-kindergarten or kindergarten, how to make that transition seamless, and what to look for in your child’s next school.
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Preschool to Kindergarten: Is Your Child Ready? How do You Know?
Date: Wednesday, April 27
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Location: The Fessenden School
Hart House (Admissions Building)
250 Waltham Street
West Newton, MA 02465
This event is open to the public and free of charge. Seating is limited and reservations are required. Please visit fessenden.org/kinlan or call 617-964-5350 to reserve your seat.
Preschool to Kindergarten: Is Your Child Ready? How do You Know?
As a parent of a preschooler, you have so many questions about the next step in your child’s educational and developmental journey:
Join us on Wednesday, April 27, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., for coffee and conversation with early childhood development expert Carol Kinlan. Carol is a leading educational consultant with McMillan, Howland & Spence of Boston, and specializes in helping parents of children ages two through six navigate their child’s early educational path.
You Will Learn:
Following the discussion, you will have the opportunity to tour Fessenden’s Pre-K/K center, talk to teachers, and see the students in action. We know how busy parents of young children are, so this part of the program is completely optional.
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With key insights into how to determine your child’s readiness to move beyond preschool, how to make that transition seamless, and what to look for in your child’s next school, parents will leave with a solid plan on how to navigate the next steps on your child’s educational path.
Carol Kinlan is dynamic speaker who has extensive knowledge of our local public and private school systems and has been helping parents make the best educational choices for their children for over 25 years. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her practical and actionable advice. Reserve your seat today!
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Suzanne Murphy at 617-964-5350 or smurphy@fessenden.org.
Hope to see you there,
Your friends at The Fessenden School
P.S. All pre-registered attendees will be entered into a drawing for a “Fessy Fun Pack” which includes:
About the Speaker
Carol A. Kinlan, M.Ed., M.B.A., Educational Consultant McMillan, Howland & Spence
Carol is a leading educational consultant with McMillan, Howland & Spence of Boston who enjoys working with students of all ages, from pre-kindergarten through college, and specializes in school placement for children ages two through six. She holds a master’s degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Mind, Brain and Education Department and worked in private schools for many years as a learning specialist. Her intimate knowledge of our local public and private school systems, combined with her expertise in child development and early childhood literacy, has made her an invaluable resource for parents in the Boston area and a highly sought-after speaker across the United States.
About The Fessenden School
The Fessenden School, located in West Newton, MA, is a private boys’ day school, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 9, which offers boarding options for Grades 5-9. For more than 100 years, The Fessenden School has provided state-of-the-art facilities, curriculum, and programs specifically designed to meet the educational needs of boys.
Updates from the High School Start Time Working Group
Given the belief of the Newton Public Schools and the Newton School Committee that a later high school start time has important health and wellness benefits for adolescents, the High School Start Time working group was created in September 2015. The working group includes School Committee members Ruth Goldman and Ellen Gibson, as well as Superintendent David Fleishman, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education Toby Romer, and Long-Range Planning Manager Julie Kirrane. The school committee’s charge to the group is to define the necessary changes to make a later high school start time happen in Newton.
New items have been posted on the High School Start Time web page including information about the faculty/staff survey and about timeline. Here’s the presentation made March 14, 2016 at School Committee, or check out the full broadcast on NewTV. Also, the F.A.Q has been updated.
HS Stress: Start Time & Other Initiatives from Newton Public Schools on Vimeo.
This is when you really appreciate having a mayor of color. He has a personal understanding of racism and hate crimes. I think this is a step in the right direction. I am hoping there will be a program that Newton students can go through as well at some point. Like anti-bullying training, those who observe hate crimes need to understand that this is something that isn’t “just kids joking around” and that “kids who are of that ethnicity or religion do not need to ‘lighten up’ and not take the joke so seriously.”
Students should also understand the history behind White Privilege and Structural Racism. For example, did you know that Hearst Magazines had a policy not to hire African Americans before the Civil Rights Movement, yet Conde Nast did not? Imagine you were an African American fashion photographer who would have been hired for Harper’s Bazaar except their racist hiring policies prevented it. You could work for Vogue magazine though.
Now, decades after the Civil Rights Movement, racism in the fashion world still exists if you look at models of color and how many get magazine covers or runway shows. Is structural racism still in place?
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Dear Resident,
I am writing to let you know that effective immediately, along with Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman, I will be setting in motion a series of initiatives to ensure an accepting and welcoming environment for all residents, visitors, students, staff and faculty throughout the Newton Public sSchool system.
In response to recent incidents that are contrary to the City of Newton’s values, we will be implementing programs to strengthen protocols, provide training for administrators on how to respond to hateful incidents, and engage and educate students on maintaining our community values at all times.
In order to facilitate these initiatives, we will be working with Richard W. Cole, Esq, a Civil Rights and Safe Schools consultant. Attorney Cole is a former Assistant Attorney General and former Chief of the Civil Rights Division at the Massachusetts Office of Attorney General.
I look forward to engaging the community and schools throughout the City to promote broad participation in the our efforts to ensure that a welcoming environment is in place at every school.
Lastly, earlier this month I announced that I will be hosting the first annual community discussion on ensuring that Newton is a welcoming place for all.
The event will be held on Thursday, April 7th at 6:30pm in the War Memorial of Newton City Hall, located at 1000 Commonwealth Avenue. I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Setti D. Warren
Mayor
City of Newton, MA