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Unfortunately some students that ride their bikes to school have had them stolen. Many towns have found the statistics to this growing problem staggering. In fact in the town of Brookline MA, police have reported that between 60 and 80 bicycles are stolen there each year!
Come back tomorrow for ways your kids can protect their bicycles from being taken by criminals.
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Y3K Tutor In Your Home donated tutoring and test prep to the Edward Devotion School’s Annual Spring Carneivale Auction. Make sure you bid to help the children of Brookline, MA.
Our auction donation and your generosity will help raise a tremendous amount of revenue for the school’s needs. The money raised will directly benefit all the students through funding major projects. As the largest public K-8 school in Brookline with approximately 850 students of varied economic backgrounds, their needs are great. Thanks to donors like us and bidders like you, the proceeds will go directly toward the continued roll out of SMART Board and iPad Technology for the classrooms and continued enrichment support for music, academic and sports programs. Given the difficult economic times that we all face wit funding cuts to our public schools, all of our support will be appreciated.
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ALICE (Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate) calls for alerting the police and implementing a lockdown in response to an armed attacker. This in itself is standard procedure in all schools. ALICE takes it a step further by training students and teachers to consider other options such as evacuating or fighting off the attacker. Teachers and students are trained in ways to stop the gunman as a last resort, if there are no other options.
What do you think about your kids being trained to fight off a gunman in school?
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After the Newtown, CT school shootings, schools have had to beef up security. Besides cameras and locked doors, some schools are turning to a new controversial method to keep our kids safe. Some school systems are turning to ALICE (Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate) which is a training program offered by a Texas based company that promotes alternatives to staying put when a gunman enters a school. Tomorrow we will uncover details about this controversial program.
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The Lawrence School in Brookline MA is again running their silent auction. Bid kindly on the Y3K Tutor In Your Home tutoring and test prep auction donation. The money the PTO raises will go directly towards helping the children of Brookline.
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“College Readiness” looks at SAT writing scores and Advanced Placement scores. The Dreamschool Finder online tool listed Wellesley High School ranked #1, Dover-Sherborn Regional High School ranked #4, Newton South High School ranked #5, Brookline High School ranked #7 and Needham High School ranked #10.
Do you think you know single Y3K Tutor In Your Home town to show up in their top ten for “School Resources”? Tomorrow we will surprise you with the answer.
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Brookline Public Schools in Brookline, MA have a major problem with increased enrollment. They are considering the traditional approach of asking voters in the spring to approve property tax increases that would be used to fund expansions of multiple schools to accommodate the increasing number of students. The Brookline School Committee is also taking a non-traditional approach to dealing with this major drag on town finances. Recently there was a proposed policy that would exclude homes straddling the town borders with Boston and Newton from sending their children to Brookline schools unless they pay taxes on at least 50% of the property to Brookline. Under the new proposal, residents of a home on the town line must also qualify to register to vote in Brookline based on its location. If they don’t, the household’s children would not be allowed to attend Brookline schools.
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For some Y3K Tutor In Your Home cities and towns, student enrollment is up across the board. However the increase is even greater for K-5 as young families are moving into those towns. In Newton, enrollment grew 7.8% across all grade levels but was up 16.5% in the elementary schools. In Brookline the enrollment for the entire system increased by 17.3% while the jump in grades K-5 alone was almost 38%.
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Brookline, MA is scrambling for space with a huge increase in elementary school students over the past 10 years. Brookline is preparing for the possibility of expanding Brookline High School and some of its kindergarten through 8 schools. The estimated cost ranges from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000!!!!
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Brookline leads all of the Y3K Tutor In Your Home cities and towns as it is seeing a whopping 37.8% growth in grades K-5 enrollment over the last 10 years or 982 students. Needham is seeing a 17.1% growth in grades K-5 enrollment over the last 10 years or 367 students. Check back tomorrow to find out what Brookline is doing to deal with an increase of almost 1,000 new students.
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