Thursday, January 31, 2013
The funding would be for the first phase of a three-phase plan to make the schools safer.
Town Meeting on Feb. 25 will determine whether the Seekonk school district should receive $127,009 to begin a three-phase plan to improve security at the local schools. The school committee voted 4-0 Monday to support the funding. School Committee Chair Mitch Vieira said the funding would cover the first phase, which is "mainly to allow the police and fire individuals who are in the building to communicate freely and not hit any cellular drop zones or radio drop zones while they are in the building." Vieira said a private consultant did a security audit of the Seekonk schools shortly after the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. The audit combined with discussions among leaders of the school, police and fire …
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Seekonk School Committee and the Seekonk Educators Association release a joint statement specifying Superintendent Madeline Meyer's resignation "has nothing to do with the" union.
Perhaps responding to community speculation that the Seekonk Educators Association played a hand in school district Superintendent Madeline Meyer's sudden resignation, the teachers union and School Committee released a joint statement late Wednesday insisting the teachers union had no involvement. "Let us be clear: this is a personnel issue between the School Committee and the superintendent, and has nothing to do with the SEA," the release states. The release continues, "It is critical during this period of transition in the district that the focus of all concerned—the School Committee, the SEA, the staff, the parents, the students and the citizens of Seekonk—be on continuing to move forward for the good of the students we serve, and not…
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Superintendent Madeline Meyer was given a three-year contract extension at Monday night’s school committee meeting.
Seekonk Schools Superintendent Madeline Meyer will be in Seekonk until at least 2015, now that the School Committee has voted to extend her contract for another three years. “I appreciate the support and trust the school committee has put in me to have me for three additional years,” Meyer said at the School Committee meeting Monday night. The contract comes on the heels of the committee's mostly positive performance evaluation of Meyer earlier this year. Meyer was rated in nine categories and received an average score of three (out of four) in all of them. The Seekonk Educators’ Association did take issue with the positive evaluation, and released their own more critical one. Meyer’s contract, which currently pays her around $131,000, …
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Local students reflect on the fun activities of the summer but look forward to school starting again.
It was fun while it lasted. With only a couple weeks left of summer vacation it is time for the students of Seekonk to start to change gears and get ready for the start of school. Most children who were interviewed enjoyed a lazy summer days filled with late nights and even later mornings, days at the beach or trips to popular New Hampshire and Cape Cod vacation spots. As the summer comes to a close, the memory of hot, hot and hotter days dwindle into their memory and the excitement begins to build as the days and evening grow cooler and the back to school shopping begins. It's time to buy new clothes, get a new backpack and get ready for the first day of school. Scroll through the photos to see what students around town have been doing …
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Town Meeting voters gave another $82,000 to the school department.
In a show of yellow paper triangles, Seekonk voters saved a middle school social teacher's job and technology in classrooms by approving $82,116 to be allocated from the town's free cash fund toward the school department budget during Monday night's town meeting. According to Superintendent Madeline Meyer, the school department budget did not include enough money to rehire a middle school social studies teacher next year. A language arts or math teacher would have assumed the position. One resident asked if the school's accreditation would be affected by the layoff. Moderator Michelle Hines told voters to keep questions on topic. Another casualty of the budget was technology infrastructure. A fiber optic Internet system was recently …
Todd Ouellet
6:52 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Emcee, I agree. But let us delineate between being non-violent and being a pacifist. One of the reasons we have this bully epidemic in society is we bringing up a generation of people that can to stand up for themselves. The last great generation that brought us through WWII understood that concept. Again maybe we should revisit our history before we move forward. more ›