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 through fifth grade students this year unless more teachers can be hired, Superintendent Linus Guillory said during Thursday’s School Committee meeting. The shortage has left a quarter of the program’s… Continue reading Schools announce plan to cut K-5 language classes this year amid teacher shortage
Author: Jeremy Margolis
Crime, arrests increased in first half of 2023, police chief says
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 police Jennifer Paster reported to the Select Board on July 25 in a wide-ranging discussion of the state of policing in Brookline. Overall, reported crimes increased by 7% over the… Continue reading Crime, arrests increased in first half of 2023, police chief says
K-8 World Language Program at “crisis point,” teachers say
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 language teachers who are calling attention to workloads they say have become unsustainable and put the entire program at risk. Proposed staffing cuts and teaching assignments for next year that… Continue reading K-8 World Language Program at “crisis point,” teachers say
Teachers union, schools agree on new contract for paraprofessionals
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 $31,000 to $34,000 next year and nearly $40,000 by 2026, the Brookline Educators Union announced Thursday. The three-year contract, which will take effect September 1, will make Brookline’s paraprofessionals the… Continue reading Teachers union, schools agree on new contract for paraprofessionals
BEEP 50 years later: Looking back at Brookline’s pioneering early childhood project
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 with previously undetected developmental and learning difficulties. Sperber initially proposed expanding a new experimental preschool, but when he relayed the plan to Burton White, a Harvard professor and early childhood… Continue reading BEEP 50 years later: Looking back at Brookline’s pioneering early childhood project