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Sixty-four percent of Melrose 8th graders scored proficient or above in English, according to the latest MCAS results.

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Northeast Voke ordered to cut budget

Under pressure from the state, the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School District has cut more than $850,000 with its latest budget proposal and sent new assessment bills to the 12 cities and towns that send students to its high school. Boston Globe, 11/18/09

Melrose School Committee OK's Ward 7 bus funding through April 1

The School Committee has approved a $20,000 spending item - pending approval from the Board of Aldermen - to fund bus transportation through April 1 for about 60 students living in Ward 7, a service the school district has offered for years but will cut in the springtime as a cost-saving measure. Boston Globe, 11/12/09

Melrose High raising the bar for academic achievement

Joseph Dillon, principal of Melrose High School, writes about new initiatives at the school. Boston Globe, 11/12/09
Low turnout may have affected school panel results

Low turnout may have affected school panel results

School Committee member Don Lehman (left) says that a low voter turnout allowed a few angry residents to thwart his reelection bid. Boston Globe, 11/5/09
21 Mystic Valley seniors win Adams scholarships

21 Mystic Valley seniors win Adams scholarships

Twenty-one of the 46 members of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School Class of 2010 recently learned that they won the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Boston Globe, 10/23/09

Melrose superintendent says grant money coming

Superintendent Joseph Casey says about $40,000 in special education grants will arrive as scheduled, even though the school district missed a state application deadline, which has one local activist fuming. Boston Globe, 10/2/09
Headmaster loving Malden Catholic

Headmaster loving Malden Catholic

Retirement just didn't suit Edward C. Tyrrell, the new headmaster at Malden Catholic High School. He left the same position at the Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati in 2003 - after 32 years with the school - and headed for Naples, Fla., with his wife Kathleen. Before long, the words of an old priest began ringing in his ears. Boston Globe, 9/24/09

Sophomores above state averages on MCAS

Melrose High School sophomores eclipsed state averages on an achievement test last spring, according to data released Wednesday. Boston Globe, 9/17/09

Melrose student achieves top ACT score

Scott Mendelssohn, son of Ellen Shore and Marvin Mendelssohn and a senior at Melrose High School, was one of only three college-bound students in Massachusetts and one of 84 in the United States and abroad to achieve a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the June 2009 national test administration of the ACT. Boston Globe, 9/10/09

St. Mary's School begins its 100th year

Marking the 100th anniversary of anything is a noteworthy event. This school year marks the 100th anniversary of St. Mary's School. Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Sisters of the the Holy Child, opened the grammar school in September 1909. Melrose Mirror, 9/4/09