Brookline school officials have distributed a new list of resources to help educators support students who are grappling with the Israel-Hamas war. The new list,… Read More »Brookline schools provide new resources to educators on Israel-Hamas war …
Brookline’s Town Meeting voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to prohibit the sale of mammals and birds by pet stores and ban the use of wild animals… Read More »Town Meeting approves animal welfare proposals …
Select Board and School Committee members chose Sarah Moghtader, a Brookline parent and former teacher in the district, to fill a vacancy on Brookline’s School… Read More »Sarah Moghtader appointed to School Committee seat …
Brookline officials tabled a decision about the path forward for building a new Pierce School, leaving the timing of relocation for students and staff up… Read More »Building Commission puts off decision on Pierce School demolition timing …
Cuts to teaching positions coupled with a spike in student enrollment have caused some Brookline High School class sizes to balloon as high as 35… Read More »Brookline High School grapples with ballooning class sizes …
The state’s 2023 MCAS results released last week show the persistence of a large racial achievement gap in test scores among Brookline students. In third… Read More »MCAS scores show vast racial achievement gap remains in Brookline schools …
A revised timeline for rebuilding the Pierce School will push back demolition of the school until at least next summer, principal Jamie Yadoff wrote in… Read More »Pierce School demolition pushed back as project timeline remains uncertain …
An August hiring spree will allow Brookline’s schools to avoid fully implementing a plan announced last month to eliminate six grades of language instruction this… Read More »Schools restore some K-5 world language classes after August hiring spree …
As Brookline High School English teacher Robert Primmer graded his juniors’ papers last spring, he began to spot a peculiar trend. “There would be these… Read More »‘It’s the Wild West’: Brookline High administrators and teachers scramble to adapt to ChatGPT …
The Brookline school district has hired a new leader for its Office of Educational Equity. Claire Galloway-Jones, who has worked as a teacher and administrator… Read More »Brookline school district hires new leader for equity office …
Citing a nationwide shortage of world language teachers, Brookline’s schools are set to implement a contingency plan that will eliminate world language instruction for kindergarten… Read More »Schools announce plan to cut K-5 language classes this year amid teacher shortage …
The Brookline Police Department made nearly twice as many arrests in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period last year, chief of… Read More »Crime, arrests increased in first half of 2023, police chief says …
Nearly half the teachers in Brookline’s K-8 World Language Program have quit or taken leave in the past two years, according to a group of… Read More »K-8 World Language Program at “crisis point,” teachers say …
Brookline paraprofessionals and the School Committee have agreed to a new contract that will increase annual compensation for the bargaining unit’s lowest-paid workers from approximately… Read More »Teachers union, schools agree on new contract for paraprofessionals …
In the late 1960s, teachers began to alert Brookline School Superintendent Robert Sperber to a problem in their classrooms. Too many children were entering kindergarten… Read More »BEEP 50 years later: Looking back at Brookline’s pioneering early childhood project …
