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"Joseph Chillo has a luxurious office in a beautiful building with a view of a leafy neighborhood in this wealthy town. But while his perch may look idyllic, his job is not.
As the leader of Newbury College, a small, struggling, liberal arts college where enrollment has declined 86 percent over the past 20 years, he has a lot of sleepless nights.
Chillo worries about a lot of things: Will next fall’s crop of students materialize, will there be enough financial aid, which majors should be cut, how much will the school get for a building it is selling, and will that be enough to close a 10 percent budget deficit."
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"One of the Commonwealth’s oldest charter schools is moving to a new building in Franklin with hopes of reducing its waiting list and doubling its enrollment within 10 years.
The Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School plans to break ground this spring on a 72,000-square foot building at 500 Financial Park Drive.
The new facility will allow the school to grow from 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade to 900, said Heather Zolnowski, head of school."
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| A concept rendering of the new Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School building that is planned in Franklin. (ARROWSTREET) |
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| Enrollment Open at BFCCPS |
The Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School's mission is to assist parents in their role as primary educators of their children by providing students with a classical academic education coupled with sound character development and community service. Our mission is supported by four distinct, yet interconnected pillars that provide for a collaborative, rigorous education for all students. These pillars guide, direct and define the school in all it does.
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"A rare white fox was captured Thursday in Franklin after spending the last few weeks visiting the yards of various homes near the state forest.
The gregarious vixen, with soft streaks of red and black in her fur and black-tipped ears, was taken in by the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife after she was caught in cooperation with the Franklin animal control department. The capture followed a sighting reported to the agency Thursday morning.
Dave Wattles, a black bear and furbearer biologist with the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, said the fox showed no indications of being rabid, though she has been vaccinated."Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
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"Since hitting a peak in 2013, enrollment at Massachusetts public colleges and universities has decreased for the third consecutive year, posing challenges that education leaders are working to address.
"This was predictable. All you had to do was go back 17, 18, 19 years ago and look at birth rates," state Higher Education Commissioner Carlos Santiago said. "We knew it was coming … But we don't want to just sit back and let those demographic trends take shape."
After more than a decade of growth, public undergraduate enrollment in Massachusetts has declined by 10,744, or 5.5 percent, since 2013. There are an estimated 186,103 undergraduate students on public campuses in Massachusetts for the fall 2016 semester."
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Dean College will host the producer and the author of “The Finest Hours” for the Dean College Leadership Institute Leadership In Action Lecture Series at 4 p.m. March 3 in the Guidrey Center at Dean College, 99 Main St.
The Leadership Series offers an opportunity for students, alumni and the local community to interact with today’s business leaders.
Families interested in ECDC may call the main office to schedule a tour or reach out to Kelty Kelley, ECDC principal, at 508 541-8166 or kelleyk@franklin.k12.ma.us.
Additional information about tuition, staff, curriculum and school hours can be found on the principal’s blog, ecdcprincipalpage.blogspot.com, and on the ECDC website, franklinecdc.vt-s.net/pages/index.
A limited number of spaces are available for students to join the seventh and eighth grade classes at the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School beginning in September 2015.
Applications can be completed online and are also available in the front office. All applications must be received by no later than September 3, 2015 at 8 AM.
Learn more at www.bfccps.org or contact Joanne Basile at jbasile@bfccps.org. Applications have already been posted online and can be found at: http://bfccps.org/about/enrollment/
| 2013 | 2104 | Delta | |
| Elementary | 2705 | 2556 | -149 |
| Middle Sch | 1433 | 1385 | -48 |
| High School | 1635 | 1706 | 71 |
| Total | 5773 | 5647 | -126 |
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| the new Franklin High School, one reason for an increase in enrollment |
While the high school enrollment continues to climb — three more ninth grade students joined on Monday — district-wide enrollment has decreased over the last few months: from 5,776 in June to 5,628 as of July 30.
School officials expected that with a new school opening, more students would enroll in the high school program. At the elementary school level, however, enrollment has declined.
Superintendent Maureen Sabolinski said the numbers aren’t surprising.
"During the spring, we sent out several surveys to parents of grade eight students to see what options they were considering for HS," Sabolinski wrote in an email. "In the past we had a consistent number of students opt to attend private/parochial school and about 90 percent of the grade 8 students indicated they intended to enroll at FHS."Continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here (subscription may be required)
Dance majors at Dean College this year will have the opportunity to learn from a master of the craft, a man who created his own technique and who has been called one of the top four tap dancers in the world.
William Evans, known internationally as a successful author and choreographer, joins the college beginning this semester as an artist-in-residence who will teach and advise students of Dean’s Palladino School of Dance.
Evans, 73, founded his own dance company in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has choreographed more than 200 works. The company has performed in all 50 states.Continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here (subscription may be required)
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| BFCCS Band in the Franklin Memorial Day Parade, 2013 |
A. Space Needs Sub Committee Report and Modular RubricRoberta Trahan - subcommittee chair
