GLOBE EDUCATION NEWS
After voters reject tax increase, Belmont schools prepare to make cuts
The Belmont school district is preparing to cut freshmen sports at the high school and eliminate the library program at its four elementary schools after residents voted against raising taxes to provide additional funds next fiscal year. (By Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent)
Marblehead rejects Proposition 2 1/2 tax override for new school
In a sweeping rejection of higher taxes, Marblehead voters defeated 10 ballot measures Tuesday to exceed the town’s property tax limits for various capital projects. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
Westwood parents fight effort to drop strings program
Despite a May Town Meeting vote to increase class sizes, cut teachers, and even raise the fee for all-day kindergarten to balance Westwood’s 2011 school budget, a relatively small cost-cutting decision — to eliminate the middle-school strings program — continues to roil parents. (By Michele Morgan Bolton, Globe Correspondent)
Pembroke students get their science lessons in the wild
The spider was small and yellow and suspended in the middle of an elegantly formed web that caught the light as it hung between saplings. (By Robert Knox, Globe Correspondent)
Young Framingham actor aims toward Hollywood — after college
With one film appearance already under her belt, it’s safe to say that Framingham teen Emily Grove has been bitten by the acting bug — badly. In last year’s “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,’’ Grove rubbed elbows with stars Matthew McConaughey and Emma Stone as an extra in a scene filmed at Brophy Elementary School in her hometown. The scene is ... (Boston Globe)
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