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With New Bedford Middle Schools still seeing little progress, school officials will consider making big changes. At Monday's School Committee meeting, John D'Auria, a member of a non-profit professional development group called Teachers21, presented his findings on New Bedford's potential benefit to adopting Innovation Zones in middle schools...

Over 650 Taunton 7th graders gathered in the Taunton High School auditorium for a presentation about how decision making effects their futures Wednesday through a partnership between the U.S. Attorney's Office, Taunton Public Schools and the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.

Town Meeting members in Dartmouth have shot down a plan to create a waterfront recreational park in the town. The plan was voted down by a 111-94 margin at Tuesday's Town Meeting. It would have created recreational space and facilities for kayakers and those with other small, man-powered boats...

Town Meeting members in Dartmouth will gather Tuesday morning for the annual spring meeting. One of the issues is over their heads, literally. As members gather in the Dartmouth Middle School, they will vote on whether to replace the roof of the building, which Town Administrator David Cressman says has fallen into a state of disrepair...

School officials say Student Success Centers in New Bedford middle schools are helping get to the root of behavior issues. On Thursday afternoon, the Ad Hoc Committee on student climate met with New Bedford Public School Wraparound Manager William Dilaney to discuss the disciplinary system...

Mayor Jon Mitchell says he has formed a sub-committee of the New Bedford School Committee that will explore complaints over discipline issues in the school system. The announcement comes after Monday night's School Committee meeting where parents and former teachers expressed concern over the lack of discipline at Keith Middle School...

The New Bedford City Council hopes to hear from public school teachers Thursday night, concerning disciplinary issues within the schools. Councillor-At-Large Brian Gomes says he still hears about troubling behavior from students within the high school and middle schools, and wants to get to the bottom of it, "Every day we hear of incidents...

Middle school graduation is right around the corner, and New Bedford High School is showing off what it has to offer.

The alarm system at Keith Middle School is now fully functional. Yet, there are plenty of questions as to how the alarm was disabled since at least 2008. Speaking on his weekly radio program, Mayor Jon Mitchell isn't certain if there will ever be a definitive answer since there have been several leadership changes since the school was constructed in 2006...

I know if you ask them , they will say "YES!" but I'm hearing from more and more friends that they think their children are getting too much homework every night.