For years, child-care centers have survived by paying workers minimum wage and offering a service that is, for working parents, still just barely affordable. It is this reality that reveals […]
Learning
Nauset High Will Stay Closed After All
Report on ventilation system is ‘not pretty’
EASTHAM — Following a dismal report on the aging high school’s ventilation system, the Nauset Regional School Committee voted unanimously on Aug. 31 to keep the building closed to most […]
LEARNING
What Back to School Looks Like This Year
Two school districts, two plans , and two unhappy families
After months of missed classes, child care, sports, and summer camps, the question of when children can return to school is a pressing concern for many Outer Cape families. High […]
PEOPLE OF THE FIRST LIGHT
Eastham Looks to Set the Record Straight at 400th
Campfire series invites Indigenous historians to shift the storytelling
EASTHAM — Since 1620, the English side of the story of the Pilgrims’ landing at First Encounter Beach, and then Plymouth, has been the version most people learn in these […]
LEARNING
Outermost Schools to Start With 2 Weeks at Home
Supt. Scallion cites fear of visitors bringing virus
PROVINCETOWN — Citing fears about tourists bringing the coronavirus here and the large number of parents who are hospitality workers, the Provincetown Schools administration has opted for the most conservative […]
LEARNING
Nauset PreK-8th Grade Plan: Back in Buildings Sept. 16
Nauset High will try a hybrid of remote and in-person classes
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School students will attend school twice a week and stay home for remote learning on the other three days, while the plan for preschool through […]
COLLEGE WOES
Pandemic Forces Students to Make Difficult Choices
Remote learning doesn’t cost schools any less, so tuition is the same
For local students just about to begin college or preparing to return to university, the pandemic summer of 2020 presents unique and daunting choices. CDC guidelines say the lowest-risk option […]
TRANSITIONS
A Decision Well Beyond Their Years
How Outer Cape eighth graders choose a high school
For Jen Rhodes of Wellfleet, it was obvious where her eighth-grade son, Jack, should attend high school in the fall. She’d sent two daughters to technical schools, and knew that […]
LEARNING
No Word Yet on How School Will Work
Alongside fear, there’s also ‘a strong desire to get back to the classroom’
A group of anonymous women have sewn two masks for every Provincetown student for their return to school in September. But whether students will actually come back to wear them […]
SCHOOLS
High School Renovation Decision Gets an Extension
Towns and regional school committee juggle timing of crucial votes
While Massachusetts students may return to the classroom in some form in 2020, it is looking like approval for the Nauset Regional High School building project will have to wait […]
BACCALAUREATES
Fourteen Graduate from Middle Years I.B. Program
PROVINCETOWN — Fourteen eighth-grade students celebrated their completion of the Provincetown Schools International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program on June 22. They walked down the front steps of the school, past the […]
ART OF TEACHING
Young People Discover Their Political Power
For the next generation of would-be voters, connection turns apathy into action
Massachusetts had the ninth-highest turnout of voters ages 18 to 29 in the U.S. in the 2018 midterms — a 17.3-percent increase over their participation in 2014. While that’s good […]
CLASS OF 2020
Drive-in Graduations Are a Go
Vincent gets OK from state for June fêtes
WELLFLEET — Gov. Charlie Baker’s Covid-19 recovery guidelines, issued on May 18, stated that “drive-in theaters are allowed to operate only for the purpose of showing movies.” That left some […]
SCHOOLS
Nauset Hopes to Have June in July
Building committee to seek further extension for funding
Keep those corsages and graduation cards handy. Nauset Regional High School is planning a prom and a graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020. “The last week in July, we’re […]
FROM A DISTANCE
Eastham Elementary Works to Maintain Connections
A parent group organizes interactions that matter to kids and adults
EASTHAM — Elementary students and teachers won’t be returning to school this year, but the community is trying to help make the most of the situation. There were cheerful waves […]
