After six months of mulling changes to the school start times in favor of giving CHS students more time to sleep, the School Committee decided June 11 in a unanimous 5-0 vote to move forward with the changes beginning in the next school year. In addition, the committee also decided to spend some money to […]
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The weather held up beautifully and the speakers came through with the perfect blend of humor and heart as the Canton High School Class of 2015 marked the end of their high school journeys last week in a memorable
The Canton High School Alumni Association has recently presented CHS with a gift of $8,000 to be used for a variety of items to benefit CHS students. This gift will be used to provided for upgraded technology in the form of additional Chromebook technology, which will benefit all students, an additional iPad for a particular […]
Last fall Canton friends Ellen Donovan and Annmarie Silvasy began to talk about the math and English Language curriculum changes they have seen in recent years. “Ellen and I and a couple of parents were concerned about the wacky math,” Silvasy said. “We made a couple of jokes about it. Then we just started to […]
Thursday, June 11, will be an important School Committee meeting as school officials will finalize a critical budget decision on whether to pursue later start times for Canton High School or keep the funds to hire more teachers and address class size concerns. Also on the agenda are plans to discuss the Common Core curriculum […]
It’s back to the drawing board for the Canton School Committee tonight as members try to salvage their plan of extending the start times at the high school and middle school while also cutting class sizes at both schools. School officials had hoped to secure additional funding at annual town meeting, either through a $540,000 […]
A clear two-thirds majority of more than 600 voters who packed the CHS auditorium Monday night offered their enthusiastic approval for the Plymouth Rubber redevelopment project — a historic action that Town Moderator Alan Hines said will “certainly
Jen Henderson, the Canton Public Schools’ current director of curriculum and instruction, has been named interim superintendent effective July 1, the date that current School Superintendent Jeff Granatino leaves to run the Marshfield Public Schools. The appointment is subject to contract negotiations. School Committee Chairman Bob Golledge Jr. and Granatino acknowledged at the April 30 […]
The Board of Selectmen plan to spend nearly $500,000 for traffic-calming measures on Dedham Street and are also urging residents to contact the governor and state highway officials in an attempt to preserve funding for the Canton Interchange Project and related Dedham Street corridor improvements. Following a public hearing two weeks ago and after consultation […]
