Keith Middle School

After interviewing Dr. Robert Gerardi on Monday, the committee sat down with Dr. Heather Larkin on Tuesday. Larkin is known in the city for her work in and out of NBPS.

The our finalists presented to the School Committee earlier this month for the superintendent position will visit New Bedford Public Schools next week, spending the day in the district and visiting several schools.

On Wednesday, New Bedford’s three middle schools and New Bedford High School will be commemorating the tragic events that took place at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Representatives of Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates hosted a community input meeting on Tuesday, the second of three this week, to see what the public wants in a new superintendent.

A new documentary on suicide prevention will premiere this week at Keith Middle School in New Bedford. Admission is free.

The New Bedford School Committee unanimously voted to ratify the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) regarding administrators at DeValles and Congdon Elementary Schools in an executive session at Keith Middle School on Monday night.

After previous middle school redesign plans in New Bedford failed to gain teacher support, district officials are putting the teachers in charge. At Monday night's School Committee meeting, teacher groups from each New Bedford middle school presented preliminary plans expected to be finalized and implemented for next school year...

Keith Middle School placed second in the Southeast Massachusetts Chapter Competition of MathCounts on February 1. With 15 schools participating, just four schools, including Keith, qualified for the Massachusetts state final competition in March...

Students at Keith Middle School received a behind-the-scenes look at police work recently through the Junior Police Academy. The eight-week program is led by New Bedford Police School Resource Officer Julio Barbosa. Twenty-five students participating in the voluntary program learned different aspects of police work, such as handcuffing, physical fitness and different types of laws...

    A very nasty disagreement has developed between School Committeeman Chris Cotter and Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin.  The public dispute has spilled onto the pages of Facebook where nothing at all will be resolved. Cotter, a New Bedford Police Detective says Durkin called his integrity into question by suggesting he may have used his police job to obtain confidential information about a student