Canton School Committee members were relieved to hear from interim Superintendent Jen Henderson that the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is not forcing Canton to change its methods of teaching and that the school system will still have full control of its curriculum. Essentially, the state is mandating what students should master […]
Proclaiming that “teen lives matter” and reaffirming a commitment to community-based policing, several members of the Canton Police Department, in conjunction with Canton Families Embracing Diversity (CFED) and local attorney and law professor Ernst Guerrier, tackled the weighty subject of police/community relations head-on at a public forum held last Wednesday evening in the Canton High […]
The Hansen Elementary School will soon be expanding after voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new eight-room addition at an estimated price tag of $4.1 million. All six precincts backed the project, which will cost the average homeowner another $26 per year over the next 20 years. A total of 1,184 residents turned out at […]
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 […]
