Unlike last year, the Canton School Committee is in a mode of restoring rather than cutting programs and staff after receiving positive news from the town’s Revenue Committee, which came back with a bottom-line projection of $31.77 million for next year’s operating budget. School Committee members had prepared three versions of the budget in anticipation […]
On Saturday, March 24, at Lombardo’s in Randolph, Canton resident Courtland Priest will compete against 24 of the region’s top spellers in the Comcast South Shore Regional Spelling Bee for a chance to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the renowned Scripps National Spelling Bee. Priest, an eighth grader, won the qualifying bee at […]
As a child, Canton High School junior Dan Kazenel took violin and piano lessons. When he was 8 years old, he heard a cello played at a concert and made a life-altering decision. “Mom, I want to play that,” he said to his mother. Kazenel, 16, will play the cello at Symphony Hall this weekend […]
CHS Principal Doug Dias has announced plans to reduce the number of college preparatory tracking levels at the high school from two to one, while at the same time enhancing a student resource center with more money and staff from the major subject areas. Dias, who presented the plan to the School Committee last Thursday, […]
As part of a new set of guidelines established under the state’s new concussion law, parents will soon be required to attend an information session every September or take an online education course on concussion safety in order for their children to participate in interscholastic sports. If adopted by the School Committee, the new requirement […]
If you are looking for some family fun, then mark your calendar for Sunday, March 11. Back by popular demand, Music Counts! and the Canton Performing Arts Department will present Cantonstock! This event features student performances with an entertaining twist: an all-day festival of music presented in an informal setting, along with fun family activities. […]
A packed audience buzzed with excitement at the Canton Alliance for Public Education’s sixth annual Spelling Bee, held last Friday evening in the Canton High School auditorium. Participants of all ages beamed with pride as family members snapped their pictures and cheered their spellers on to potential victory. Proceeds from the event are channeled into […]
A round of applause by audience members, including administrators and school principals, followed the announcement by School Superintendent Jeff Granatino on January 19 that Peter Boucher has been appointed the new permanent principal of the Hansen Elementary School. Boucher, who previously served as the district’s wellness coordinator, took over in the role of interim principal […]
School Superintendent Jeff Granatino informed the School Committee last week that just to maintain current staffing levels and all school programs for the next school year, the FY13 school budget would need an additional amount of $934,861. The actual budget limit will be set in mid to late January by the town’s revenue committee, which […]
School Committee member Reuki Schutt said the work being done by the Extracurricular Subcommittee is very important because it may help the committee with its operational budget for the upcoming school year, especially with “more drastic cuts” potentially on the horizon. On Thursday, December 15, the committee heard a midpoint report from the subcommittee, which […]
