What's that got to do with "More Staff Leaving the High School"?
Nothing,
Best High Schools In Massachusetts For 2018: Report
Just in time for the school year, Niche.com is out with its latest rankings of Massachusetts' best public high schools.
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By Alex Newman (Patch Staff) - Updated August 8, 2017 5:16 pm ET
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Best High Schools In Massachusetts For 2018: Report
As the 2017-18 school year kicks off, parents and students heading to their first day of school can see how their high school stacks up against others in the state as Niche.com has released its annual rankings of best public high schools in the country.
The 2018 rankings released this month rank elementary, middle and high schools as well as school districts. We put lists together for each.
To arrive at these rankings, Niche looked at data from the U.S. Department of Education as well as test scores, college data and ratings collected from Niche users. The methodology for each category of ranking varied. (Click here for more information on how Niche calculates its rankings.)
Niche assigns a standardized score for each factor, which is then weighted before an overall score is calculated for each school district. The overall scores are again standardized and some districts are disqualified from receiving a final letter grade if there isn’t enough data. School districts are then ranked numerically and assigned grades.According to Niche, these are the best public high schools in Massachusetts (You can see the full list here.):
Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science (Worcester)
Lexington
Wellesley
Newton North
Boston Latin
Newton South
Brookline
Belmont
Weston
Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter (Marlborough)
Acton-Boxborough Regional
Westford Academy
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional
Wayland
Cambridge R&L
Algonquin Regional
Needham
Amherst Regional
Westborough
Concord-Carlisle
Bedford
Westwood
Hopkinton
Sturgis Charter (Hyannis)
Dover-Sherborn Regional
Niche ranked the Solon City School District in Solon, Ohio the best school district in the country. With an overall Niche grade of A+, the district received a grade of A+ in academics, teachers, clubs and activities, college prep and health and safety. In the category of diversity, Niche awarded the school district an A-.
Niche’s data for its K-12 school district rankings comes from various sources including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Data Collection. The rankings also rely on data that is self-reported by Niche users and schools. (Click here to learn more about where Niche’s data comes from.)
What do you think of the rankings?
Ms. Cindy Taymore is not getting up the doremifasolatido! She should not be fooled again by the school committee, parents, residents, mayor and others. The money is given to her administration, not the educators.
Melrose School Calendar 2017-18: First Day Of School, Vacations, Conferences
When's the first day of school in Melrose? That, and other must-know dates for parents, students and teachers. The first day of school in Melrose is August 30. Feel free to mark it on your calendar as one of the most dreaded days of the year for students and teachers — and feel free not to feel guilty about marking it as one of your favorites. The Melrose Public School District has released its 2017-2018 calendar for public schools.
The calendar includes important dates such as winter and spring vacations, religious holidays, federal holidays, early dismissals and parent-teacher conferences.Here is the full list of dates to know for this school year:
August
8/28 - 8/29: Professional Development
8/30: First Day of School for Students
September
9/1 - 9/4: No School (Labor Day)
October
10/4: Early Release Day
10/9: No School (Columbus Day)
November
11/1: Early Release Day
11/7: No School for Students (Professional Development)
11/10: No School (Veterans Day)
11/22: Early Release (Noon Dismissal)
11/24 - 11/24: No School (Thanksgiving)
December
12/6: Early Release Day
12/22: Early Release (Noon Dismissal)
12/25 - 1/1: No School (Winter Vacation)
January
1/1: No School (Winter Vacation)
1/10: Early Release Day
1/15: No School (Martin Luther King Day)
February
2/7: Early Release Day
2/16: Early Release (Noon Dismissal)
2/19 - 2/23: No School (February Vacation)
March
3/7: Early Release Day
3/30: No School (Good Friday)
April
4/4: Early Release Day
4/16 - 4/20: No School (April Vacation)
May
5/2: Early Release Day
5/28: No School (Memorial Day)
June
6/13: Schools Close 180 Days (Noon Dismissal)
6/20: Schools Close 185 days (Noon Dismissal)
Ready for the new school year?
Not bad work - 6 months of work for full pay - with plenty of vacation days, sick days, professional development days, early release days, and personal days! While the rest of us in the dreaded private sector try to earn enough money to pay our taxes so that we can pay our teachers and admin staff for an under-performing school system! Yep! this all makes common sense to me!
Just drive past MHS/Central Admin anytime during the summer and most of the time the parking lot is nearly empty. Central Admin (and the various elem principals, all just as useless and corrupt) gives itself huge swaths of time off, even when they are supposed to be on the job and are being paid by us, the taxpayers. Then the swindle continues as they Take Back huge swaths of "unused" vacation time when they pack up their very large Golden Parachutes to greener pastures and/or "retirement" (aka lucrative taxpayer-funded so-called consultantships for DESE by these so-called "experts" regardless of their miserable track records of failure in Melrose). And still the dumb Melrose public slumbers....
The poster above is correct.
Not one thing has changed melrose schools.
Public Comment for all school committee meetings.
Good evening to all of you. I have a big question for Margaret Driscoll, melrose school committee, our mayor Dolan and all of you at home. For me it seems like they are not thinking about education anymore, they're thinking about adding people to the administration which is top heavy. I'm going to refer to these people who help out in the classroom to people who enjoy what they're doing and they care about the kids. They don't get paid a lot of money, and when I hear elected officials possibly talking about eliminating them, the big question becomes, what is their agenda? Yes folks, I'm asking that question, what is Margaret Driscoll's agenda. Is she trying to prepare herself to move up the ladder to be business manager, sooner then later? That's the way that I look at it. It's only a thought, and an opinion. But the bigger concern here is, is the education of every single child that attends the melrose public school system. Lets shine a little more light on this, it's not about the teachers being against the peers, or the peers against the teachers. This is really about education here. So I would say to every family in melrose, please make sure you call the mayors office and let him know how you feel about this. And make sure you call everybody on the school committee, I know from my own personal experience, paraprofessionals really do a good job. Some folks might not like what I'm saying, but it's time to make your opinions known to all, not just the school committee, board of alderman, our mayor,and our superintendent. Education is important and for those of who have forgotten about it, shame on you. What's more important, having another administration person or having paraprofessionals? I think that it is important that we use every avenue that we have available to educate every student and any student that has an IEP where the paraprofessional can come into play. It's sad when we have elected officials that don't really look at the big picture. Maybe because their children never had any difficulties in school. Please do not think that I am stepping over the line because I am sure as hell not. This is Melrose, sometimes you need to spell it out very clearly to all. So for those of you that think that you all have the answers, think again. What do I mean by that? Everyone of you should think of it as your own child being educated here. This is not about pointing fingers at one another. This is not about the teachers union. Sticking up for paraprofessionals, why change something if it has been working for all these years? The only thing that I can think of, is that melrose public school systems, under our current superintendent hasn't thought about or seeked the funds to teach a lot of these children in house instead of sending them to other places. Maybe because it seems to me that they just like to create more administration jobs. It's just an opinion. So let's all wake up. And ask the interesting question; what is important here in melrose for an education. Hiring more teachers or hiring more administration folks that do not deal with the children. Okay folks, I'm looking forward to hearing about your comments and thoughts.
Learning commons in MHSlights stay on all the time. Ms. Paymore would not like this.
She just wants to profile the crown jewel of the High school according to Dolan: A 3.5 million dollar hangout for unsupervised, unruly kids.
Lookout! Looks like one of JenMcA's cronnies just pulled papers for SC. She's trying to take over the SC with her MEF agenda.
She could be an ex-con for all I care. If her agenda is to get rid of Taymore, I'm voting for her. The schools have been sliding since CT has been here, (despite Guilfoil's PR ************ the DESE numbers don't lie) and the Melrose School District has been disgraced Nationally in the press with news of rampant civil rights violations against students with disabilities and minorities. Add on top of that multiple Open Meeting Law violations and Public Records violations and it's just one big God-awful mess.
What's going on in Melrose?That's a good question to all the taxes payers. wake up people - the SC hires the superintendent.
How much longer does superintendent T have on her contract? How long does the high school principal get a contract for?
You have every right to be concerned about Ms. Cindy Taymore have on her contract?A good question?
It seems to be that she is passing out her gifts. CT knows her days will be near.
The poster above is correct.
This all started with the the election of arrogant and incompetent school committee members headed by self-serving chairpersons. They dish our enough favors to remain in office for years - developing a school network to ensure re-election for years to come .
The poster above is correct.
Don't be an idiot! There is absolutely no reason why someone can't have other business interests and still be Mayor - how parochial your thinking is! What is the justification to eliminate a whole segment of our population for this position - none!
Who really wants political hacks running the city decade after decade - better to institute term limits if we keep to having full time Mayors. Change the charter now!!!!!!
EXECUTIVE SESSION - 9:25 PM
1. To approve executive session minutes of August 1, 2017
2. To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations of Superintendent Cyndy
Taymore’s successor contract
8. ADJOURN
Note: The listed agenda items are those that are reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be
CT was hired for 3 years, July 1, 2012-June 30, 2015. Got an extension for 3 more years til June 30, 2018. This is to discuss extending her contract again
All parents,residents,staff should be attending this meeting to stop CT for one more day as superintendent of Melrose schools.
Our forefathers would be rolling over in their graves if they saw that the majority of Melrose residents would be prohibited from being mayor simply because they owned a local business or a practice or a farm. They specifically wanted local representation to local, state and Federal government to be a temporary duty that you did as sacrifice for your country, state or town. They specifically did NOT want career politicians or aristocracy controlling these positions, particularly in their local governments. There was NEVER a prohibition against continuing the family business of farming, etc. No politician had to divest themselves of their farms, their businesses, their practices. For. what would they do when they completed their term?? The undemocratic Melrose model is a highly unusual practice for cities and towns even by today's standards. Let's make Melrose a Democracy again!
Melrose is tapped out and will not go any further.
The poster above is correct.
Even though it's quite probable that the majority of Melrosians would vote to remove the mayor from the School Committee, only Monica, Scott and Don attempted to move that forward in this week's BOA mtg of which I had the misfortune of watching a re-run (a revolting $hitshow). The rest of them decided that their political alliances with the Executive Branch mattered more than what the citizens should have a chance to vote on or what makes common sense based on 15 years of evidence (the mayor on the SC has been a huge mistake, proven by many actual facts).
https://vimeo.com/231483237
http://melrosecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/Calendar.aspx
http://melrosecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=3219
http://melrosecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=3219&MediaPosition=&ID=5693&CssClass=
full copy of proposed changes to City Charter & votes/recommendations to date, along with letters from citizens:
http://melrosecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=2949&Inline=True
This is what happens when the public sits silent and allows politicians to run amock fulfilling their patronage obligations instead of holding true to their oaths of office, as they do here.Don't forget the BOA gets health insurance from the city.
Most words apply to Melrose EXCEPT for the part about SC getting paid....
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NAACP Boston Branch
Incremental...
Incremental improvement might be ok when you are running a manufacturing plant making widgets...the process is the process and the widget is the widget.
Incremental improvements cannot and should not be the acceptable standard when we are preparing our children to compete in a fast paced, ever changing global economy. Our children cannot afford incremental improvements to a broken education system. That's one.
Two, the pervasive RACIAL achievement gaps in the Boston Public Schools absolutely cannot wait for the School Committee to get its act together and finally hold the School Administration accountable for doing the job that they are all paid -well- to do. Otherwise, the members need to be replaced...remember the School Committee members get paid to hold the district accountable. We need stronger representation to support our children. We need people who are not satisfied with "incremental improvements". That standard is highly offensive.
Because this district and city are fully capable of tackling this issue of RACIAL achievement gaps and winning...yet both have failed to do so, this is quickly becoming a moral crisis. It is a failure of our children that we cannot continue to accept while some celebrate incremental change.
The Boston Public Schools must move from theory to practice. Now.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/…/U95ZwajZhnrXMesSoBe…/story.html
Just as the earth goes through seasons, so does a family in the course of time endure seasons.So does the school.So 2017 and 2018 will be good for all.
Please do not go there.
With the schools ranking almost 70 in the state is not good. Release CT, let her GO!!!
Liz 857-544-4923 and Christine 781-662-2347 let them know how Cindy is doing.
Mcleans hospital is where the SC need their head examined if they give the super one more second in Melrose schools.
First, it's McLean Hospital (not plural), and second, the SC has already voted to extend CT's contract in secret. Sure, the SC needs its collective head examined, but the public that keeps these awful people in office and fails over and over again (including this cycle) to put forward credible candidates is the bigger culprit.
Hey, I assumed this is Melrose Messages not a English test. You are correct the residents with no children have no clue. And it is not a secret how many years more super has received from the SC and Mayor.[Thumbsdown]
The secret is Cindy got over 1 and under 5 years to stay in Melrose.[Huhh]
Thinking before you speak or do something. It's about knowing that every day, the choices we make can and will affect our lives. It's about being accountable for our choices in life. We have the right to make our decisions every day, and every day is a new day.
City had to hire so many and put a percentage of residents in Melrose. CT has the most law suits of any superintendent in this city. Now,the SC gives her over 1 and under 5 more years. It is too be a secret.The cats out of the bag CT, got 3 more years.