Dr. Steven A. Hiersche

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  Steven Hiersche, from superintendent, Plymouth, Mass., to superintendent, Watertown, Mass.

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  Dr. Steven A. Hiersche, SuperintendentWatertown Public Schools

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Board scrambles... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/28/2002    Last Visited: 11/28/2002  

  Superintendent Steve Hiersche urged the School Committee to approve an application to the state by Dec. 1."My concern rests on one thing: my desire not to lose another year," he said."Our schools are overcrowded now and are only going to get more overcrowded."
  
  Reviewing a two-year long study process, Hiersche said the town's two high schools house 2,600 students, in grades nine through 12, and that studies have projected enrollment will grow to 3,400 in 10 years and to 4,000 in 15 years.He said the proposed site for a new high school behind Indian Brook Elementary School, in South Plymouth, "works very well."

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Community Briefs - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/27/2001    Last Visited: 12/27/2001  

  Superintendent Steve Hiersche said last Friday that the school department will present a redistricting proposal for public comment in the spring.
  
  Hiersche uneasy
  
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  Plymouth Superintendent Steve Hiersche said last Friday that it would be ''impossible'' for him to recommend that next year's school budget stay within the 3 percent increase cap sought by the Board of Selectmen.
  
  The School Committee is slated to meet Jan. 7, 8, and 9 in work sessions on next year's school budget.
  
  The committee will hold a public hearing on Jan. 28.Residents are invited to comment on the public proposals before the committee takes action.Traditionally, the School Committee acts on its budget after the public hearing closes.
  
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  Hiersche said capping school spending increases at 3 percent would mean ''a dramatic cut in services and increase in class sizes.The only place to cut would be to reduce the staff.And when you have 200 more kids than the current year, it's hard to reduce staff.''
  
  The primary focus, Hiersche said, is to maintain staff levels and class sizes.Next year, the town's teachers will be in the second year of a three-year contract that will give them a 3.5 percent pay increase.The one-half percent increase compensates teachers for an extra day that is used for staff development.

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Community briefs - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/21/2001    Last Visited: 12/21/2001  

  Schools Superintendent Steve Hiersche will schedule two public sessions next month to discuss plans to redistrict Plymouth's public schools.
  
  The town's student population is approximately 9,000.Much of the growth occurring in the southern section of town is causing schools there to be more crowded than those to the north and west.Schools officials want to build two new elementary schools in South Plymouth, but have not formally sought approval from Town Meeting and voters.
  
  Redistricting is considered a way to ease overcrowding for three years, until one school - for 800 students - can be built.Officials also want to build a third high school or expand Plymouth North High School to ease overcrowding at the secondary level.

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Discussion set on... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/5/2002    Last Visited: 5/5/2002  

  Flynn said Rose told her the final decision on where to hold graduation would be made by the School Committee and Superintendent Steven Hiersche.
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  But Hiersche's office told her it was the principal's decision, Flynn said.
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  Hiersche, at the School Committee meeting, did not say where Plymouth North graduation would be held.
  
  Tuesday's meeting for parents is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Plymouth North auditorium.
  
  This story ran on page 6 of the Boston Globe's South Weekly section on 5/5/2002.© Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company.
  
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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Leaks damage... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/3/2002    Last Visited: 3/3/2002  

  Superintendent Steve Hiersche said the school needs to order replacement bricks 14 weeks in advance, which is why it needs the $500,000 now, with repair work slated for the summer.

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  Published on: 6/6/2002    Last Visited: 6/6/2002  

  School Superintendent Steve Hiersche said a feasibility study on building more high school space will be conducted this summer.The study will weigh building a new high school or making additions to the two existing high schools - Plymouth North and Plymouth South.In either case, renovations will be needed for Plymouth North, Hiersche said.
  
  "It's an older building at a point at which it has needs.The portables are extremely tired," Hiersche said.
  
  A school department consultant also is studying plans for a new elementary school.While no specific proposals have been made, Hiersche said, the preliminary estimate of the cost of building new high school space and a new elementary school is $90 million.
  
  Either solution is still far off and faces a precarious future in a time of tight town finances.This year, town leaders cut the school's budget request by $1.4 million.
  
  Plymouth North, on Obery Street and more than a mile from the town center, opened in 1963 as the high school for the Plymouth-Carver regional school system.

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Preview of Town... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/28/2002    Last Visited: 3/28/2002  

  Also scheduled to appear are Assistant Town Manager Mark Sylvia, Board of Selectmen chairman Ken Tavares, Finance director Patrick Dello Russo, Planning director Jack Lenox, School Superintendent Steve Hiersche, Planning Board chairman Loring Tripp, and Finance Committee chairman Phil Ricardi.

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  Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Revenue drop in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/24/2002    Last Visited: 2/24/2002  

  Superintendent Steve Hiersche said recently that increases in fixed costs, new state mandates, a new bus contract, plus more students to educate every year ''all came together at the same time.''
  
  ''The four and three caused this to happen,'' Hiersche said, referring to 4 and 3 percent caps in the two previous years.He said the schools need to recover from years in which educators have been ''zeroing things out,'' such as equipment purchases and textbooks.
  
  Hiersche said the School Committee-approved budget includes a staff reduction of 12, through attrition, and the elimination of late buses at the secondary schools.
  
  The School Department appreciates the need to keep taxes down, given the loss of Pilgrim revenues in the future, Hiersche said. ''We understand that.What we've seen over time is that education is a very high priority in this community and we're trying to do it as cost effectively as we can.''
  
  Most of the School Department's budget is spent on salaries.Though it did not become a major point of contention at the three-board meeting, town officials blame most of the school budget's jump this year on salary increases of 31/2 percent.Other town departments held contract raises to 2 percent a year for two years.
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  The School Committee concluded by asking Hiersche to analyze what cuts it would have to make to lower its budget increase to 4.47 percent.That is the figure that would cap the town's overall projected tax increase at 21/2 percent.
  
  This story ran on page 2 of the Boston Globe's South Weekly section on 2/24/2002.© Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company.
  
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