Vivi Smilgius
Reporter at Brookline.News
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1 week ago |
brookline.news | Vivi Smilgius
Teachers in Brookline will receive significantly less funding next school year for non-mandatory professional development, leading a Brookline nonprofit that raises private funds for educators and administrators to re-evaluate the grants it provides. The Brookline Education Foundation was founded in 1981 and has allocated more than $6 million around the district since then, for initiatives ranging from lending libraries to international trips to study ancient mathematics.
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2 weeks ago |
brookline.news | Vivi Smilgius
The screening committee tasked with appointing an interim superintendent for the Public Schools of Brookline has selected four candidates as finalists, and the School Committee will interview each candidate publicly next week. The screening committee privately interviewed six candidates between June 3 and 11, and aims to finalize a contract for the interim superintendent by the week of June 16.
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3 weeks ago |
brookline.news | Vivi Smilgius
The School Committee’s effort to find a short-term replacement for resigning superintendent Linus Guillory is underway, moving quickly but marked with tension and disagreement over the search process and how to take into account racial equity when hiring district leaders. A 22-person Interim Superintendent Preliminary Screening Committee is tasked with hiring an interim superintendent for the beginning of the 2025-26 school year.
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3 weeks ago |
brookline.news | Vivi Smilgius
Dozens of students, educators and parents clad in rainbow colors held signs and waved flags while marching from Brookline High School to the Brookline Teen Center on May 30, celebrating the start of Pride Month. Over the crowd’s chants and cheers, several drivers along the route honked in support of the group.
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4 weeks ago |
brookline.news | Vivi Smilgius
A new vibrant cartoon mural across from the Driscoll School is one of 10 pieces of art springing up on walls around brookline. The mural by artist Kenji Chai, sprawled across the side of Stoked Pizza Company on Beacon Street, is part of the Murals Around Town initiative orchestrated by Brookline Art Makes Community and funded by the federal government.
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A coalition of Brookline groups has raised about $85,000 of $205,000 necessary to fund equity-focused positions across the district. The fundraising comes in response to cuts made last week to Brookline's equity office and school-based equity leads. https://t.co/aoJX8J7vHg
A Brookline resident was hospitalized with serious injuries after being hit by a car on University Road on Saturday night, according to Brookline police. https://t.co/QhuG50KVle
