Newsweek Names Sturgis Charter Public School as #708 High School in USA

The magazine's 2013 rankings came out Monday.

On mobile? You can see interactive map here.  Newsweek has ranked Sturgis Charter Public School as the #708 high school in the country. Other schools on Cape Cod making the list include Sandwich High School which ranked #817, Nauset High School which ranked #1031 and Mashpee High School which ranked #1141. For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about Sturgis Charter Public School's ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above. The survey scores were then weighted and calculated using several criteria including on-time graduation and college acceptance rates. In …

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K-5 Cape Cod Charter School Informational Meeting

Come Learn About a Commonwealth Charter Public School for Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Former Cape Air President to Address New Grads

Cape Cod Community College announced this year’s commencement speaker today.

Cape Cod Community College announced that Captain Dave Bushy, a 35-year veteran of commercial aviation and former Cape Air president, will speak at the college’s 51st Commencement in May. Bushy has flown for several airlines during his career including Delta, Jet Blue and Cape Air, according to a press release. In 2006 his position with Cape Air grew when he accepted the role of Chief Operating Officer. In 2010, he was promoted again, this time as President of the airline where he served until his retirement this year. College President Dr. John Cox said they are extremely pleased to have Bushy as this year’s speaker. “Our graduates are entering a world full of change, opportunity, and some turbulence, similar to the evolution of the …

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Sturgis Charter School Ranked Number 1 in Massachusetts

Sturgis Charter School in Hyannis ranked number one in Massachusetts and 31st in the country for its programming, according to rankings released today by U.S. News and World Report.

Boston Latin has nothing on Sturgis Charter School. Ranked number one in Massachusetts and 31st in the country, Sturgis Charter School once again is at the top, according to U.S. News and World Report. This is the second year in a row the scrappy high school, located in two storefronts on Main Street in Hyannis, has held this distinction, proving that a school is more than bricks and mortar – it's the students, faculty, administration and program. Boston Latin is ranked number two in the state. For a complete list of Massachusetts public high schools and public schools in the country and their rankings by U.S. World and News Report, click here.

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Peers Needed for Preschool Program at Centerville Elementary

A screening will be held April 10 for parents of 3-year-olds interested in sending their children to the preschool program at Centerville Elementary.

The preschool program at Centerville Elementary is the only public preschool in Barnstable. The program offers a high quality-learning environment for children with and without disabilities. There are still openings available for next fall for 3-year-old peer models. Principal Matt Scheufele said children who have good language and social interaction skills are ideal candidates for the program. “There are many children that are in the program with special needs in language development, so we are looking for children who are able to use good language skills and are able to model appropriate behavior,” Scheufele said. Scheufele said the program benefits both children with special needs and typical children. “I think typical children learn …

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Centerville Elementary PTA Wins Lego Education Grant

More than 100 students and their families gathered at Centerville Elementary Friday night to celebrate the win with a night of Lego building.

The Bay Lane PTA was one of 100 recipients selected out of more than 2,000 applicants nationwide. “I am amazed that Barnstable received this grant money, when you look at the number of applicants, it’s amazing,” Superintendent Mary Czajkowski said. The $5,000 grant will enable Centerville Elementary to build on its already successful Lego robot after school program. “There is a curriculum that they are going to use that will be focused on building and design in a community. So the kids might be building a police station and have an officer come in and speak to the children about their building and their part in the community. It’s a great opportunity to build in some excitement around Legos with some real world social studies curriculum,” …

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How to Kill A Tick: Mass. High School Student's Tick Project Goes National

Jacqueline Flynn's research into how to kill ticks is being looked at by the federal government.

Jacqueline Flynn was working on an entirely different angle of tick research when she came across findings that would launch her project into first place at the Braintree High School Science Fair, second at regionals and garner the interest of state and federal officials.  Flynn, a sophomore at Braintree High School, was worried about making sure she removed ticks from herself and her clothing after collecting them for a different project when she researched how to kill them in a laundry cycle. She found a lack of data, and what she did find indicated that ticks frequently survive a clothes washer cycle because they are difficult to drown, but that a full hour in the dryer can kill them. After 13 cycles of testing, Flynn discovered that …

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Gas and Dash, St. Patrick's Day Arrest, Gang Shooting

OMG PD: A look at police news around the South Shore and Cape and Martha's Vineyard.

  The following information is from police departments, courts and media outlets that serve Patch towns. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.  Gas and Dash in Milton.   Fight breaks out in Hingham restaurant.   Weymouth man refuses to pay bar tab on St. Patrick’s Day, is chased out of bar and backs into an innocent bystander in the parking lot with his car. Braintree man charged with gang feud shooting.  Plymouth Sheriff defends Obama assassination joke, calls critics “hypocrites.”  More charges for man accused of photographing women in Hyannis tanning salon.   Cape Cod duo arrested on drug charges.  Martha’s Vineyard woman jailed in package store ruckus. 

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BHS Drama Club to Perform 'Little Shop of Horrors'

The Barnstable HIgh School Drama club will perform 'Little Shop of Horrors' March 14-23.

The following is a press release from the Barnstable High School Drama club.  The Barnstable High School Drama Club will present Little Shop of Horrors by composer Alan Menkenand writer Howard Ashman, also well known for such classics as Disney’s Aladdin, Beauty and the Beastand The Little Mermaid. The play is based on a campy 1960 horror film that featured a then unknown Jack Nicholson, Little Shop combinesgreat doo-wop, Motown, and early ‘60s rock and roll music in a spoof of schlocky monster movies that pitsnebbishy florist Seymour Krelborn against Audrey II, an alien plant that requires blood to survive and isbent on conquering the world. The cast, which numbers well over 65 and ranges in age from 6 to “21-plus,” includes not just …

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Threat of Winter Storm on Tuesday Postpones MCAS Testing

Due to the expected winter storm on Tuesday, the state announced that the MCAS English Language Arts Composition test for students in grades 4, 7 and 10 has been postponed until Monday, March 25.

Since much of Massachusetts is expecting a winter storm on Tuesday, and with it the possibility of numerous school closings or delayed openings, the MCAS English Language Arts Composition test for students in grades 4, 7 and 10 has been postponed until Monday, March 25, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced on its website.  Originally this composition test was scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, but in an effort to make sure all schools administer the test on the same day, "all schools must administer the ELA Composition test to students in grades 4, 7, and 10 on Monday, March 25, including schools that are not affected by the weather," according to a memo from Elizabeth Davis, Associate Commissioner of …

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