Tara Monastesse
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Pittsfield schools to reconsider policy on student-teacher communication (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD â The Pittsfield School Committeeâs Policy Subcommittee was in agreement on Tuesday: Itâs worth taking another look at the districtâs policy on private cellphone communication between students and teachers to ensure professional boundaries stay in place. However, district leaders are also trying to balance precaution with the need for teachers to collect personal contact information in specific situations. Some examples mentioned at Tuesdayâs meeting included keeping in touc
Pittsfield's Holiday Inn & Suites remains temporarily closed (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD â The Holiday Inn & Suites on West Street has been temporarily closed since Friday after guests were forced to evacuate because of a broken elevator. The hotel has three elevators but two have been defunct âfor some time,â Rian Dowd, the cityâs building commissioner, said Tuesday. When the third stopped working on Friday, âwe ended up having to shut down the facility because there were no working elevators,â she said. The Pittsfield Fire Department assisted guests in evacu
(+) What's a charter objection? Here's how a controversial tool derailed a Pittsfield City Council vote (opens the original)
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Here's how the controversial tool derailed a Pittsfield City Council vote. PITTSFIELD — More than three years after it was last used, the city’s notorious charter objection has once again stirred up discourse. Following a lengthy discussion on Tuesday, Councilor Cameron Cunningham invoked the rule to stop a vote that would have renamed the city’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and restructured the department. The vote will now take place during the council's next regular meeting on Oc
What's a charter objection? Here's how a controversial tool derailed a Pittsfield City Council vote (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD â More than three years after it was last used, the cityâs notorious charter objection has once again stirred up discourse. Following a lengthy discussion on Tuesday, Councilor Cameron Cunningham invoked the rule to stop a vote that would have renamed the cityâs Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and restructured the department. The vote will now take place during the council's next regular meeting on Oct. 13. The amendment would have renamed the department to the Office
Charter objection delays vote to rename Pittsfield's DEI office (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD â The City Council was expected to vote Tuesday night on whether to rename the cityâs Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a change that the Committee on Ordinances and Rules had already approved last month. But a last-minute charter objection by Councilor Cameron Cunningham forced the council to delay a vote on the amendment until its next meeting. Cunninghamâs objection came after he spent nearly an hour questioning the departmentâs effectiveness, as well as whether it
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