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The Greenwich school board met briefly on Monday night in a hybrid format with a single action item on the agenda, which was to vote on two new Republican Board of Education members. Both new members were voted in unanimously 6-0. Continue Reading →
“Today we bid a fond farewell to our old school that served us for nearly 70 years. What a beautiful place it is,” he joked as the adjacent demolition of the old school continued…Many of you or your children attended the old CMS, I’m sure it’s bittersweet to see it removed.” – Building Committee Chair Joe Rossetti Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Dr. Mercanti-Anthony emailed the board and Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones to say, “I know you all are aware by now, but please consider this my official resignation notice, effective August 26th, 2026.” Continue Reading →
“Use what you have been given. The education, the opportunities, the experiences, and go live your life. Create, dream and explore it. Just as ducklings must stop following and learn to soar on their own, we must stop waiting for someone else to show us the way.” – Joell Molina Continue Reading →
An action item at the end of Thursday’s school board meeting on extending the Superintendent’s contract ended in a tie vote, which meant the motion to extend failed. The vote came at the end of a long meeting, on the heels of the board’s 5-3 vote in favor of a bell to bell cell phone ban at the Greenwich High School. Continue Reading →
BOE member Veronica Chiavaroli said other Greenwich elementary schools already house district programs besides their K-5 responsibilities. Riverside does not. Pre-K for children age 3, 4 and 5 is required by federal law to be provided for free for special education students who are in class with peer students who pay tuition. The number of students identified for Pre-K has tripled since 2012. Continue Reading →
The opposing perspectives seemed to boil down to whether enrollment might be declining in response to cuts or cuts being the response to declining enrollment. In one teacher’s words, “Death by a thousand cuts” or in the words of the Superintendent, “The budget for what the district needs.” Continue Reading →
The idea of the preferred Option 5 is to build a new natatorium on the location of the existing GHS tennis courts so the existing pool can remain in use for swimming and water polo teams and then be repurposed afterward for other PE uses. This approach would make it possible to create a second egress to the high school, a long overdue project given the twice a day mind-numbing traffic jam on Hillside and Putnam Ave. Continue Reading →
“As we start the meeting and start the new term – to all of you, the public at home and everyone listening – we ask for your grace. We have a new board – half of us are brand new. We have new leadership and it’s easy to forget that we are all in this together. All of us are parents, all of us ran for the board because we want the best for our children and community.” – Dr. Michael-Joseph Mercanti-Anthony, unanimously elected BOE chair Continue Reading →
Two heavy agendas included changing 5-house structure at GHS to one based on grades: 9, 10, 11 and 12; moving to a 7-block fixed schedule, consolidating freshmen English/Social Studies and not weighting the grades, school bus parking, and Cardinal Stadium lighting. The much anticipated enrollment report was presented. Also the head of IT gave an update on the cellular improvement project at GHS. Continue Reading →