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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Dedham TV to Host Election Forum on March 28

As of February 25, 2013, the deadline for submitting nomination papers has expired. Candidates have received letters that have declared candidacy for a local office within the Town of Dedham. And are invited to the candidate forum.

Dedham TV will be holding a one candidate forum on Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013, beginning at 7:30 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. at their studio location: 502 Sprague St. in Dedham. DTV’s Political Edge Host Greg Agnew will moderate the forum. He will be joined by a co-host to be named later. The forum will last approximately 1 1⁄2 hours. During this time, all candidates will be asked live questions provided to the host via e-mail (edge@dedhamtv.org), facebook (facebook.com/dedhamtv), and twitter (@gregagnew). No other questions (such as questions from the audience) will be allowed during the forum. All media has been invited to sit in the audience and report on the event. Those interested may ask questions via the aforementioned methods as soon as…

Hello Ladies

11:35 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013

I hope the co-host is a woman. Past political shows have been all-male panels.   more ›

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rachel McGregor Believes Providing Transparency is Key for Dedham's School Committee

Rachel McGregor is running for a seat on Dedham's school committee and she wants to increase the amount of parent involvement in the school system. And McGregor believes that providing transparency on key issues will accomplish that.

  Rachel McGregor decided to run for a seat on Dedham's school committee because of the changes that are going to take place within the next year.  She believes that parents should be more involved in the decisions, so providing transparency for the whole community will be one of her goals. "The more conversations we have the stronger we become as a public school district," McGregor said. McGregor has been involved as an educator for 25 years and is a literacy specialist.  And she is excited about being involved in the school committee because of the changes that will soon take place, such as setting the common course standard and the new teacher evaluation system. "I think it's important to become a part of the process," she said. "…

Dan O'Neil

11:48 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Mrs. MacGregor, the biggest issue I see is at the Middle School/HS level. Teachers there hide behind the online tool that gives the list of assignments and shows what has and what hasn't been handed in and gives test scores. Sometimes these teachers don't update this for a month and a parent finds out way after the fact that there child is failing or not ghanding in assignments timely, My nephew …   more ›

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