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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.

1 week ago | brookline.news | Sam Mintz

Brookline police are investigating after a brick marked “Free Palestine” was thrown through the window of The Butcherie, a Jewish grocery store, early on Sunday morning. Police say that at least two people wearing masks came from the direction of Coolidge Street, threw the brick through the store’s window, and fled back down Coolidge Street. The act is being investigated as a hate crime, according to the press release.

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.

2 weeks ago | brookline.news | Greg Levinsky

Sunday afternoon involved a mad dash — multiple, really — but Altamo Aschkenasy wouldn’t have it any other way. Around 1 p.m., the 18-year-old Brookline High School senior crossed the stage at Cypress Field to receive his high school diploma. By 5 p.m., the middle-distance runner had won the MIAA Meet of Champions mile, and set a personal record. “I feel like yesterday was something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life,” Aschkenasy said with a laugh. “I’m in disbelief.

3 weeks ago | brookline.news | Daniel Gibbons |Sam Mintz

The Coolidge Corner Theatre received an ominous email from a government address on May 2, informing it that its National Endowment for the Arts award would be terminated at the end of the month, according to a recent post on the theater’s Instagram account. The NEA, an independent federal agency, is “the largest funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide,” according to a fact sheet on the agency’s website.