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The Burlington community has an opportunity this fall to vote to replace the Fox Hill Elementary School Building through the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) grant program for rebuilding or renovating school buildings. But what exactly does that mean? Learn about the Fox Hill MSBA engagement today, and continue reading
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Questions about the Fox Hill project? Sign up for our first-ever Community Conversation. On September 23,2024, Burlington's legislative body will take up the question of funding a new elementary school building for Burlington. Fox Hill has been a topic of conversation in the community since at least
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Many opportunities for growth have been identified by the ongoing literacy curriculum audit in Burlington Public Schools, an initiative for which Town Meeting this May authorized a spend of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Dr. Gail Lovette, contracted by the district to perform a comprehensive review of preK-12th
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Burlington Public Schools has hired an instructional coach to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at Burlington High School, and her name will be familiar to many. Former English Department Chair, Shannon Janovitz, will be pioneering this new role, which focuses on looking at education at the high school
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Rising tenth graders who are in need of a new high school experience now have an opportunity to join the technical high school that serves Burlington and other surrounding towns. Shawsheen Valley Technical High School serves the towns of Burlington, Bedford, Billerica, Wilmington, and Tewksbury and provides more than 20
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The fox Hill School Building Committee has released a collection of videos designed to outline the process of rebuilding the Fox Hill Elementary School with state funding, from decision to schematic selection to design and beyond. The short (less than 2-minute) videos are posted on the Fox Hill Building Project
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Burlington Public Schools teachers will begin the year with new supports in place for reaching Newcomer students, or those students who were born outside the United States, are in their first three years of living in the U.S., and are designated as English Learners. Newcomers come from a large
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This time last year, Burlington's Fox Hill Elementary School was in the news quite a bit. That's because the Committee in charge of making decisions about the future of the school building was faced with the choice of whether to rebuild a single Fox Hill school
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Burlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Eric Conti and Operations Director, Bob Cunha, introduced a 20-year facilities plan to the School Committee at their July 23 meeting. The goal is to put to paper the anticipated needs of the School District and prevent capital needs from sneaking up on the town.
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Midway through the Burlington High School Feasibility Study, the Building Committee and design firm, Tappé Architects, have released a video to update Burlington residents and other stakeholders on the process of renovating or replacing the 360,000-square-foot building, constructed in 1971. The high school has been high on the district&
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There's a new school administrator in town, and he's ready to hit the ground running. Tim McMahon took the reins from six-year Marshall Simonds Middle School principal, Cari Perchase, following her departure to another district this July. A Burlington resident and educator of 22 years, Tim
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Recommendations from math curriculum review that has been ongoing for the last year were presented at School Committee.