It started out small in late 2020 as a lethal coronavirus was sweeping across the country and wreaking havoc, but mid-2021 finds the popular Stretch Your Food Budget program flourishing, as more volunteers step forward to help Hull families and seniors make their food dollars go further. Created by resident Dennis Zaia, the program offers,…
Hull resident Deborah McCarthy, now in her 25th year as a fifth-grade teacher at Jacobs Elementary School, expressed her continuing opposition to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) testing by refusing to administer the first round of this year’s exams to her students. McCarthy, the only Hull teacher to request “conscientious objector” status with regard…
Hull Public Schools administrators are moving forward with plans to slowly but steadily increase in-person learning for middle school and some high school students beginning in February based on coronavirus health metrics, but the Hull Teachers Association thinks that transition would be too soon. HTA Co-president Brian Mullin, who asked to speak at this week’s…
Controversy continues to swirl as School Com backs superintendent By a 4-1 vote earlier this week, the School Committee upheld School Superintendent Judith Kuehn’s earlier recommendation to cancel winter sports due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. “Hull has been in the red [high-risk zone] for the past two weeks, with 66 new cases…
While closing Hull Public Schools for two weeks was the right decision at the time, Acting School Superintendent Judith Kuehn believes, it was not an easy one to make, she told the Times. “Hull children and their families rely on our public schools as a key component of their larger community. In addition to academics,…