The Dreamschool Finder ranks “Math Growth” based on how a school performs against similar schools. Surprisingly only one Y3K Tutor In Your Home town made it to the top ten list. Wellesley High School was ranked #8.
Best School System
Parents often ask us, “What is the best school system for my child?” Two college professors and a local newspaper got together and decided to try to answer this very question. They recently released the Dreamschool Finder online tool to help parents decide what public school system is in fact best. What Y3K Tutor In Your Home towns made the list? Check back tomorrow!
PARCC Test Spring 2014
The country is getting ready for new nationwide tests to measure student performance. Coming soon will be a trial run of the new national standardized test called Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). About 2/3 of MA’s schools have been chosen to participate in the PARCC trial next spring. This includes the Y3K Tutor In Your Home communities of Natick and Weston. The full list of schools participating in the trial run have not been released yet as some are still being chosen and notified.
Check back here tomorrow for how the MCAS 10th grade graduation requirement will be handled.
Extended Learning Time Parent Backlash
There has been a push by some to extend the school day. They call it ELT (Extended Learning Time). There is a growing backlash from parents that in fact find this to be a bad idea. They maintain that longer school days cut into family time, sports, theater activities and tire out kids. Those promoting this idea tend to be wealthy philanthropy organizations with big ideas about education and trying to push their ideas on middle class families who are on the receiving end. Kids need a chance to unwind and have free play. A 6-7 hour school day is more than enough time to get everything done that they should be doing. What do you think?
School Enrollment Growth – Brookline & Newton MA
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%.
Brookline Public Schools Enrollment Problem
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!!!!
K-5 Enrollment Growth – Brookline & Needham
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.
School Enrollment Surge: Needham, Newton, Brookline & Wellesley
Many Y3K Tutor In Your Home communities are seeing a surge in school enrollment, especially in the lower grades. There has been double digit increases K-5 enrollment in the following Y3K Tutor In Your Home areas: Needham, Newton, Brookline and Wellesley. Tomorrow we let you in on which community is the leader of the pack when it comes to enrollment expansion.
Newton Public Schools Controversy
The City of Newton Superintendent of Schools after begging the taxpayers to raise their property taxes by $11,000,000 to pay for school projects, decided his meager $251,923 annual compensation was not enough. He has since signed a four-year contract being paid a 10% raise. Did you or anyone you know get a 10% raise?? He now receives $246,918 plus $29,748 in fringe benefits including payments into an annuity, a life insurance reimbursement and a car allowance. This brings his annual compensation up to $276,666. One has to wonder if the Newton, MA residents would have been so eager to raise their own property taxes with a Proposition 2 ½ vote at the pleading of the mayor and superintendent of schools, if they knew the same two public servants were going to raid Newton’s treasury after the vote.
Would the Newton Public Schools have been better off halting the Newton Public Schools Superintendent’s raise and spending the $25,000 on the children he was hired to serve?
More Controversy In Newton, MA
The City of Newton, MA is back at it again with more controversy. Recently the residents voted to raise their property taxes to pay for school improvements and town services. After the vote, the money has been flying out of the city treasury and into the pockets of the mayor and superintendent of schools.
The Mayor of Newton got an annual raise of $27,125!! His old salary of $97,876 is now $125,001. He was given a 28% raise. Did you or anyone you know get a 28% raise last year? Most are just lucky to keep their jobs. You’d be very lucky to earn a 5% raise. Now one could argue that the mayor is the most important City of Newton public servant and deserves to be highly paid. If this is true, how can one begin to explain what the superintendent of schools is pulling?
Come back tomorrow to find out where the taxpayer money for the public schools is really going.