The Canton School Committee has reached an agreement with the Canton Teachers Association on a new three-year contract that takes effect on September 1, 2019 and runs through August 31, 2022. The contract covers all Unit A employees, which includes approximately 300 teachers, nurses, and other education personnel. The agreement is being called a win-win […]
The United States Department of State honored retired Canton High School German teacher Elsa Nicolovius with its 2019 Citizen Diplomacy Award at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., last week. The Citizen Diplomacy Award was created in 2017 to recognize American citizens and organizations that are leading efforts to renew and strengthen important international relationships […]
Julie Ghostlaw, English teacher at the Galvin Middle School, is very proud of this year’s seventh graders. The entire seventh grade has been working hard on a lengthy and ambitious undertaking to beautify the Galvin grounds. Known as the Galvin Pride Project, it followed an approach to instruction called project-based learning which, in this case, […]
Julianne (Julie) Shore, CHS assistant principal and former dean of students, will assume the role of director of technology for the entire Canton school district beginning July 1. In making the selection after nomination from an in-house search committee made up of school administrators, Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Fischer-Mueller praised Shore as a veteran educator with […]
Project SMILE, a Community Problem Solving team consisting of students from Canton High School, took home first place in the CmPS Senior Division at the Future Problem Solvers International Competition held earlier this month at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Canton teens competed with students from all over the world who worked on a […]
See this week’s Citizen for complete CHS graduation coverage, including then and now photos, scholarship winners, future plans and much more. The weather was picture-perfect and the speeches hit all the right notes as the 229-member CHS Class of 2019 — a group that achieved greatness by working hard and “honoring the process” — marked […]
By Judy Bass A search is underway for the next superintendent-director of Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton due to the anticipated retirement later this year of James P. Quaglia, who has held the position since 2010. Blue Hills Regional has been a leader in career and technical education for more than 50 years. […]
School Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Fischer-Mueller has announced the appointment of Yeshi Gaskin Lamour as the next principal of the Luce Elementary School. Lamour will replace longtime Principal Robie Peter, who is retiring in June after a 30-plus-year career in education. A resident of Canton, Lamour has served for the past six years as principal of […]
Given new budget figures by the Finance Committee last week, Canton school and municipal leaders will have a decision to make regarding cuts to new budget spending. The FinCom is recommending that the School Committee cut $691,000 from its proposed FY20 operating budget of $44,705,362. For selectmen and municipal department heads, the proposed cut is […]
The Canton Bulldogs Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) team was recently named the winner of the Massachusetts RWDC and is on its way to the national competition to be held in Chevy Chase, Maryland on April 13. Members of the CHS team include Guy Blochstein, Ryan Carney, Andres Castro, Devin Chen, Austin Cox, Dhanush Narayana, […]
