Epstein announced his plans Monday to retire from elected office after he finishes his current term.
The Ward 1 School Committee seat will be a wide-open race next fall. Current Ward 1 School Committee member Geoff Epstein announced Monday his decision not to run for a fourth and final term on the School Committee. He will serve out the rest of this term (13 more months) and then retire from public office. "I have been actively involved in trying to improve the Newton schools for more than a decade, with the last five years as an elected official. Those years have, in my view, been very productive but also a constant battle for change in an environment which was initially quite hostile to that notion," Epstein said in a Dec. 3 email to Newton Patch. Newton School Committee members are allowed to serve a maximum of four, two-year terms. …
Designers laid out the number of classrooms, the size of the gym and other initial details about the new Angier Elementary School.
Although the new Angier Elementary is another few years away from completion, Newton school officials are starting to get a sense as to what the rebuilt school will look like. Representatives from DiNisco Design Partnership, the Angier project designers, and Joslin Lesser & Associates, the Angier project manager, presented information Monday night on the initial classroom plan for the new school. "This is the building block...the starting point for every school," said Donna DiNisco, principal for DiNisco Design. In her presentation during Monday night's School Committee meeting, DiNisco said the initial plans outline 22 classrooms for kindergarten to fifth grade. This includes four kindergarten classrooms and 18 classrooms for grades 1-5…
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Janet Sterman
3:51 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
A true loss to the Newton School Community. Geoff is a man of principle, long with being both passionate and compassionate as a School Committeeman. We will be fortunate if we elect someone with half of hisinsight and communication skills to serve our community. more ›