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Several parents and even one of the district’s younger students appeared before the School Committee recently to raise concerns about a plan to move one of the two counselors from Butler Elementary School to Chenery Upper Elementary School. The reallocation of resources…

According to a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education database, an increasing number of school-age children in Belmont are choosing to attend private or parochial schools. The number of school-age children attending private school increased from 481 to 545 between the 2017-18…

In 1985, “Back to the Future” was the highest-grossing film, Whitney Houston made her recording debut, and Michael Jordan was named the NBA Rookie of the Year. It was also the year Colleen Cox first started teaching kindergarten at Burbank Elementary School…

The district reconfiguration is in its final stages, and work for the last implementation phase — moving the fourth grade into the Chenery Upper Elementary School this fall — is well underway. “I’m really excited about it,” said Assistant Superintendent Lucia Sullivan.…

The Foundation for Belmont Education will recognize eight Belmont Public Schools educators later this month for their excellence in the classroom and for “consistently making a difference in the lives of Belmont’s students.” “The best part of it, for me, is that…