Kindergarten registration is open! Please see the attached flyer for info and links!
Registration is ongoing but we are asking families to register their child by March 1st if possible to help us prepare for staffing & class sections.
PDF Flyer for Registration: https://t.co/3IfADqbnPC
Shared from Twitter: https://t.co/HEdrfAblOO
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| Franklin Public Schools, MA: Kindergarten registration is open |
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| No school Friday, vacation week 2/15-2/19 |
"While trials are recruiting or already underway for children 12 and older, companies have yet to enroll younger children. It will probably be another year before vaccines are available for them, said Robert Frenck, the principal investigator for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine trial at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, who also oversees the AstraZeneca clinical trial there.
At least four companies — Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Janssen — are planning to start trials for younger children this spring, according to Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology, and chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine. It is “critical to include all populations including infants and young children in safety trials,” she said in an email, adding that doing so “will be important to prevent individual pediatric infection as well as transmission to family members, teachers and other caregivers.”
"Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin and voting rights advocates want to allow Massachusetts residents to vote by mail for any reason. But is that constitutional?
The Massachusetts Constitution explicitly says the Legislature can authorize absentee voting for just three reasons: if someone is out of town, physically disabled, or cannot vote on Election Day due to a religious belief.
Lawmakers acknowledged the constraint in 2013, when they considered but did not act on a constitutional amendment to allow absentee voting for any reason.
“There’s been a long-term traditional view that opportunities to vote by mail in Massachusetts are constrained by the Constitution, which specifies particular conditions under which you can do this,” said Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University."
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has just updated their transportation guidance, which can be found online here: https://t.co/9LeGeMqRGj
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| DESE Updates Transportation Guidance |
As a reminder, our Rotary Club of Franklin MA Valentine's Day Virtual Fine Art Auction fundraiser preview is live today (Wednesday)!
We ask that you kindly share our flyers via email to all of your friends and family and encourage them to Register for their Bid Number and see the art that is up for auction right now! Because this is virtual event, it can be enjoyed by everyone you know, from all over the U.S. and it only takes a minute to Register at bid.marlinart.com.
This is our very first virtual fundraiser event and we cannot do this alone. Perhaps someone you know will win the $100 gift card, simply by registering and obtaining a Bid Number. Also, purchased art is framed and will be shipped to their home address, FREE within the U.S.!
Thank you in advance for your help in making this fundraiser a success.
Diane M. Padula
Rotary Club of Franklin MA-Fine Art Auction PREVIEW BEGINS
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