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By Patriot Staff TJl@barnstablfipatiiQtxQm A coalition of citizens,agen- cies and the town is finding new ways to help the home- less who can't squeeze into the NOAH shelter.Alan Burt, organizer of the Salvation Army's Overnights of Hospi- tality program, sent along an e-mail detailing how the sys- tem is working. On Tuesday night, he said, a frightened, mentally ill woman needed shelter, but NOAH and the Overnights program were full.Yet "a cooperative effort between a dmh (Department of Mental Health) worker, her intern, a homeless advo- cate, myself and the shelter staff," Burt wrote, resolved the situation. "There are no adequate words to describe the expression of relief andjoy on her face when she learned that the Noah Shelter had provided the funds for amotel room for her for the night," Burt reported. "Because of donations that Noah receives from the community, they are able to help in situations like this."....You have alittle more time to nominate someone you admire for a Hero Award from the Cape Cod Chapter of the American Red Cross. Nominations are due Jan. 23; papers can be picked up at 286 South St. in Hyannis (or call508-775-1540). Candidates must live in Barnstable on Nantucket counties.... I { U4 v4*44 14*" ' H About the only good news in the state Office of Educational Quality and Accountability report on the Barnsta- ble schools is that the period it covers runs from June 2001 to June 2004. At last Tuesday's school committee meeting, Interim Supt. Tom McDonald read out the mostly fair to poor grades the system received from the evalua- tors. He followed the catalog of miser- ies with a strong defense of the many improvements that have been made since the summer of 2004. "We knew we were going to get whacked," committee chairman Ralph Cahoon said, "but we had good leader- ship in place to rectify the problem. Before the state said we needed to fix it, we had." Noting that the report considered Barnstable "high-performing" because its Average Proficiency Index on the MCAS tests was 81.6 in 2004, above the state average of 77.6, McDonald fo- cused on three major areas of concern: assessment and evaluation, curriculum and instruction, and business and financial management. Under assessment and evaluation, 65 percent of the areas studied were graded poor or unsatisfactory. "We needed to make some changes," McDonald said, then ticked off the ones already accomplished: estab - lishment of a curriculum director for grades K to 12 and data teams at each school, district accountability plans at the local and central levels, and a central office team to provide evalua- tion and analysis expertise. He added that the schools have a new personnel evaluation system In place as well. "We did a better job than the report indicates in that time period in the area of evaluation," McDonald said, noting that completed evaluations that were not in the proper folders were considered not to have been ¦ done. In the area of curriculum and in- struction, the EQA auditors found 58 percent of the areas studied poor or unsatisfactory. McDonald pointed to establishment of curriculum analysis expertise in the central office, and to the continuing development of the schools' own BCAS testing program. The third area highlighted by the interim superintendent was business and financial management. Here the auditors gave the system a 54 percent satisfactory grade. McDonald cited improvements after the audit such as consolidation of financial manage- ment with the town and submission of regular, detailed financialreports to the school committee. McDonald noted that the state had not put the system on "watch status" because of the findings. EFM emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com EQA graders give poor marks A $2,000 Re-entry Scholarship is available for afemale year-round resident of the Cape or Islands who is a U.S. , citizen and plans to return to college this fall, after at least a six-month interruption in studies. To quality, students must have completed two full years of college by January 2006, applied for admission, and be enrolled by the fall in afull-time program leading to a bachelor's degree. Send aself-addressed, stamped,legal-sizeenvelope to AmericanAssociation of University Women Scholarship Committee, PO Box 1007, West Dennis MA 02760-1007. Applications, with two references and official academic transcripts, are due by March 20. AAUP to aid scholars NancyTane, assistant superin- tendent for student services f or the Brookline Public Schools, was sched- uled to be interviewed for the Barn- stable superintendency by the school committee this past Wednesday night, after the Patriot' s deadline. A story about the session can be found on the newspaper 's Web site, www. barnstablepatriot.com On Friday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m., the committee will interview Dr. Jeffrey Bearden , assistant superintenden t for business for the Maine School Ad- ministrative District No. 1, headquar- tered in Presque Isle. The third and final candidate, Dr. Patricia Grenier, superintendent of the Carver system, will be interviewed Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. Both interviews are open to the pub- lic and will be held at the Barnstable High School library. Stories will be found on theTatriot' s Web site the day following the interviews. The school committee will hold a special meeting Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at Barnstable Town Hall to discuss the candidates in open session and may reach a decision that night. A story will be posted on the paper 's Web site Jan. 26. EFM emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com Superintendent interviews begin The Barnstable Histori- cal Commission, the Mas- sachusetts Historical Com- mission and the Cape Cod Commission's own historic preservation planner don't want Mannheim Realty LTC to tear down an 1890s home in the Hyannisport National Register Historic District. With an OK from acommis- sion subcommittee, however, the owners of 17 Hawthorne Ave. may receive approval Jan.26 at ameeting of the full commission. The draft decision released this week would approve de- molition of the Queen Anne- style residence as well as construction of areplacement of about the same size and in a style consistent with the neighborhood. In the draft decision, archi- tect Peter Brown is quoted as saying the house is un- sound based on neglect and deterioration, and that the proponent' s preservation consultant did not believe the building was historically significant. The draft notes that the Barnstahle Historical Com- mission voted unanimously to oppose demolition, stating that loss ofthe property would compromise the historical integrity and diminish the historic setting and context of the historic district. Nevertheless , the draft conclusion finds that "the existing building has limited associative , contextual or architectural significance and that demolition ofthe existing buildingwillnot have asignifi- cant negative impact on the integrity of the Hyannisport historic district." The commission's Jan. 26 meeting begins at 3 p.m. in the Assembly of Delegates chamber at 1st District Court House in Barnstable Village. 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