Steven Silvestri selected as the interim principal of Devotion.
Allowing little time to transpire, Superintendent Bill Lupini has found a replacement for the outgoing Devotion School Principal Gerardo Martinez. In prepared remarks presented to the Brookline School Committee Thursday, Lupini announced that Steven Silvestri has been selected to serve as the interim principal. Silvestri is currently the interim principal at Bishop School in Arlington. “We consider ourselves fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Steven Silvestri and we look forward to a successful and productive year for the entire Devotion School community,” said Lupini. Silvestri, a recipient of the Massachusetts Elementary Principal of the Year award in 1997, has had a storied educational career having served as principal in …
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Devotion Principal Gerardo Martinez is leaving for a job in the Wellesley school system.
And the search begins. It was announced Thursday night during the Brookline School Committee meeting that Gerardo Martinez is leaving Devotion School to become the principal of the Schofield Elementary School in Wellesley. Martinez, who has been the Devotion principal since 2006, stirred controversy last December when he sent home what some parents deemed a permission slip for reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. That prompted the School Committee to revise the district’s policy on reciting the pledge. Deputy Superintendent Jennifer Fischer-Mueller read a prepared statement from Superintendent Bill Lupini, who was unable to attend the meeting because of a prior commitment. “Everyone who has had the opportunity to work closely with him will …
MoonBeamWatcher
12:17 am on Saturday, June 4, 2011
Now to my way of thinking . . . if the Gene Thompsun-Grove position was so very, very beneficial to the teachers MAYBE the Teachers and or the union could and should fund the entire position to give the tax-payers a break and to demonstrate the unions concern for democratic solutions to problems! (If each teacher donated a sick day, that could well cover it!) Oh, and a freeze on wages like "THEY… more ›