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Superintendent of Schools Carol Cavanaugh has agreed to a new five-year contract with a starting salary of $205,000. In making the offer, which is just over $11,000 more than her current salary of $193,725, School Committee members praised her “incredible work ethic,...
A working group to develop plans for the full-time reopening of the Hopkinton Public Schools is scheduled to begin meeting in January, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told the Hopkinton School Committee Thursday. “The goal is to have full-time, in-person reopening of...
Members of the Hopkinton Growth Study Committee propose creating an economic development office within the town to bring in new economic opportunities and work closely with the business community. This proposed post would initially be a one-year contract position...
The Hopkinton school district presented a tentative budget of $54,307,442, an increase of a little over 6 percent from the current budget, at a joint meeting Thursday with the Select Board and Appropriations Committee. This was the first look at a projected school...
Keeping the Fiscal Year 2022 school budget to a 2.5 percent increase over current spending will be “mathematically impossible” without eliminating positions, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told School Committee members Thursday. A major obstacle to staying at a 2.5...
A quick return to full-time, in-school education is not feasible because of logistical and scheduling issues, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told School Committee members Thursday. The issue of how and when to return to school full-time will be the task of a group...
School Committee members may form a group to consider returning students to school full-time, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh said Wednesday during an appearance on HCAM's Hopkinton Hangout Hour. That group, which is scheduled to be discussed at the Dec. 17 School...
Elementary and secondary schools could start at a later hour in the future to allow students to get more sleep, School Committee members said Thursday at their meeting. One possibility could be starting the high school and middle school at 8 a.m. and elementary...
Hopkinton schools will go to a fully remote learning model for the week after Thanksgiving, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told School Committee members Thursday night. The move is...
Hopkinton schools will remain in their current learning model and not move to full-time instruction despite recent recommendations by the governor and education officials,...
Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer. Nearly a quarter of all cancer deaths are caused by lung cancer. A major reason for this sobering statistic: By the time patients experience symptoms such as coughing up blood or chronic coughing, the disease often...
The reasons why people should support aquatic life could fill an ocean, members of a new organization led by Hopkinton High School students believe. And in fact, they do, the students say. From a fish that produces 300 million eggs at a time to a footlong octopus that...
Six people in the Hopkinton school community tested positive for COVID-19 through the middle of October, but none of them contracted the virus within the schools, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told Hopkinton School Committee members at Thursday's meeting. “To date we...
The decision to close schools Tuesday and Wednesday after two high school students tested positive for COVID-19 allowed necessary time for contact tracing, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told members of the Hopkinton School Committee at its Thursday meeting. “There...
This year, they’re taking a walk — or a run — on the milder side. Because of the pandemic conditions, the usual hustle and social interaction of the annual Paws & Claws 5K Run/Walk to benefit Baypath Humane Society of Hopkinton will be replaced with a virtual...
Parents are being asked to change course and have their children take the bus, if possible, to alleviate traffic backups that impacted the opening of school, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told members of the Hopkinton School Committee on Thursday night. Traffic has...
The question of whether to livestream some live classes is holding up an agreement between the Hopkinton Teachers Association and the school district for the upcoming school year, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told the School Committee at its meeting Monday night....
A memorandum of agreement between the school district and the Hopkinton Teachers Association was not approved by the HTA, but superintendent Carol Cavanaugh said talks will continue and she remains optimistic about a resolution with less than a week before school is...
A tentative memorandum of agreement has been reached between the Hopkinton Teachers Association and the Hopkinton school district, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh...
Representatives for the Hopkinton Teachers Association and the school department have been “working really hard’’ on negotiations for a...
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