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With a growing family population in the city, parents and school officials are looking closely at how redistricting could effect classroom sizes.

Madison Frost hasn't missed a day of school since she started kindergarten at Stanley Elementary School in 2003.

School officials say the new Waltham public schools Web site will unify the district online.

Whenever teacher Donnie Lucente is asked to help out his school, his immediate response is "Anything for the Dever," said Vivian Swoboda, principal at Paul A. Dever Elementary School in Dorchester. Lucente, a Waltham resident who has been teaching at Dever Elementary School for 10 years in the Learning Adaptive Behavior program, received a Boston Educator of the Year award on June 8.

Ready to leave elementary school behind, fifth-graders and their parents gathered at Northeast Elementary School last night for a celebration of the graduating class.

The School Committee last night called upon the City Council to restore funding to the district's budget for the next fiscal year to save faculty and staff whose jobs are on the chopping block.

Proud parents roamed the classrooms of Plympton Elementary School last night stopping to listen to music, snap photos of artwork and even watch a play.

Every big event needs a great emcee, and Whittemore Elementary School fifth-grader Jing Qi Yang certainly played the role perfectly as she introduced acts during the school's annual Flag Day celebration on Friday.