Arlington Public Schools (MA)
Laura Gitelson currently serves as a School Committee Member for Arlington Public Schools, managing a significant budget and contributing to various subcommittees, including Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Gitelson has extensive experience in admissions counseling, having worked at InGenius Prep and previously as an Undergraduate Admissions Reader at MIT. Gitelson played a key role in the Invest in Arlington Override Campaign as Co-Chair of Field Organization and has held admissions-related positions at Boston University School of Law and New England Law | Boston. Academic instruction experience includes roles at Simmons College and New England Law | Boston, along with a law degree from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.
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Arlington Public Schools (MA)
The vision of the Arlington Public Schools is to be an equitable educational community where all learners feel a sense of belonging, experience growth and joy, and are empowered to shape their own futures and contribute to a better world. Arlington is a community with a rich history. Once known as Menotomy, it was the site of the bloodiest fighting on the first day of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775. The town was incorporated as West Cambridge in 1807, when it was set aside from Cambridge and a portion of the former town of Charlestown. The town was renamed Arlington in 1867, to honor those buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In the nineteenth century, Arlington was primarily an agricultural community, with a thriving ice industry centered around Spy Pond and mills located along Mill Brook. Schools: 1 pre-school; 7 elementary (K-5) schools; 1 grade 6 school; 1 middle school (7-8); 1 high school.