The average cost to educate a child in public school on Martha’s Vineyard is more than several regionalized school districts of similar size, including Nantucket, according to a recent study.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is in the market for a new principal, after school officials announced this week that interim principal Sean Mulvey will return to the school’s counseling department next year.
The cost of services shared by public schools on Martha’s Vineyard could be going up by nearly 9 per cent, superintendent Richard Smith told the all-Island school committee Monday night as he presented an $11.4 million draft budget for the coming fiscal year.
The Massachusetts Association of School Committees has won the contract to conduct a search for the Vineyard’s next superintendent of schools.
Dr. James Weiss died on August 10 at the age of 78. He spent 10 of his 46 years in education serving the Island.
The Aquinnah select board is hoping to learn if the town is responsible for paying the entire education costs for students who live on sovereign land owned by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).