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Alma Del Mar's Board of Trustees approved the agreement this week.

The public interview process wrapped up on Monday, when the committee held its final interview with Ana Riley at Keith Middle School, and will elect the new superintendent on Wednesday.

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.

New Bedford School Committee Members John Oliveira and Chris Cotter join WBSM's Brian Thomas, filling in for Barry Richard during the snowstorm, to discuss school safety.
The night before, the School Committee spend significant time in executive sessions discussing how to make city schools safer…

The final list of applicants to replace New Bedford Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin, who announced her resignation late last year, were announced on Wednesday.

The School Committee kicks off the new year with a thud.

Election 2016, Donald Trump sounds the trumpet blaring "drain the swamp." Election 2017, a sawshbuckling John Oliveira crashes onto the scene like a bull in the school department china shop to resuscitate New Bedford government schools.

The newly elected School Committee member needs to stop talking

Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin has earned a new contract

Mitchell, Gomes, Carney, Abreu, Coehlo, Ribeiro, Dunn, Morad, Dawicki, Oliveira,  etc. They all have something in common. Yes, they were winners in New Bedford's recent popularity contest aka city elections. Not one campaigned to be an advocate, a watch dog of your tax dollars...