MSJOC Joint Statement on Parent Teacher Conferences for the 2025-2026 School Year On Tuesday 11/18, the Middle School Joint Oversight Committee voted to recommend for the school year 2025-2026 that each building maintain the schedules used in the school year 2024-2025 for parent teacher conferences.  The central administrative team took the recommendation into consideration and agreed to retain the same number of parent conference dates, but with modified schedules to allow t

Full Time Kindergarten Aides: Done! It took from March of 2023 until now, but the kindergarten saga is over!  From Chris Brezski to Newton Public Schools community: ********** Dear NPS families and staff, On November 12th, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Sarah Weyland Ellis ruled to uphold an arbitrator's decision that the Newton Public Schools must reinstate a full-time aide in all kindergarten classrooms with 14 or more students.  The policy in place at present is that

Another Victory in the Campaign to Restore Full Time Kindergarten Aides! The Honorable Superior Court Judge Sarah Weyland Ellis has rejected the appeal of the Newton School Committee to overturn the Arbitration Award to restore full time kindergarten aides in the Newton Public Schools. From the Middlesex Superior Court Docket: 11/12/2025 ORDER: Memorandum of Decision and Order on Cross Motions for Judgment on the Pleadings For the reasons set forth above, the School Committe