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Four new candidates for Newton’s School Committee have emerged.
The four are branding themselves as a collective solution to a problem in communication and understanding they say was laid bare by last year’s teacher strike.
“The candidates are not interested in relitigating the strike or assigning blame,” their joint press release reads. “Instead, they want to ensure the community never experiences that kind of division and hurt again. Their priority is to help adults work better together for the sake of Newton’s students.”
For immediate release.
NEWTON, Massachusetts. March 31, 2025.
The candidates recognize the current approach isn’t working and that Newton schools urgently need new energy and creative solutions. They bring a fresh perspective on the role of the School Committee: they see School Committee members first and foremost as advocates for the schools. They will take on key issues that face our schools and provide a strong voice for the funding and resources needed to ensure an excellent education for all Newton students.
In recent weeks, four new candidates have filed with the Newton Election Commission to run for School Committee positions this November, and they have jointly informed Fig City News of their intentions to run for that office, providing their biographies as well. They are:
These comments followed similar ones made predominantly by educators at the School Committee’s March 19 public budget hearing, including from Bruce Hedison, a Newton resident who has launched a campaign website to be a School Committee representative. Mr. Hedison lives in Ward 7 (Chestnut Hill and Ward School area), according to the address given during his public comment, and stated he worked in Hudson, MA for 33 years, including as a union president. He cited NPS students still recovering from the effects of Covid-19 and stated “it is not fair what happened …but we just need to move forward from today and be there for our kids.”
Bruce Hedison will be the first to tell you that he comes off as a “curmudgeon”, but any student who has had him over his 33-year teaching career in Hudson knows that he is an innovative, caring, passionate teacher who is the reason so many of the STEM electives exist at this school…even if he’s too modest to admit it.