The construction of the dugouts at Westhill High School’s baseball field has fallen behind pace slightly. A fire at Springdale School last week drew workers away from the field and to the classrooms, Al Barbarotta said at Monday night's Board of Education meeting.

“Classroom space comes before dugouts,” said Barbarotta, director of facilities management for the Stamford Public Schools.

The $100,000 renovation project is being done on a $25,000 budget, piecing the work together between other projects, Barbarotta said. Westhill will play its games at Cubeta Stadium

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Jerry Pia walked out of Stamford’s Board of Education meeting not once, but twice, Monday night. Pia, the board’s vice president, said he came to the meeting ready to discuss money transfer policies. None of the other board members were, however, and Pia, chairman of the fiscal committee, announced he was going home and left.

“This is ridiculous,” he said several times.

Pia returned to the meeting about 15 minutes later, calmer but still angry. By way of explanation, he said he had met last week with Hugh Murphy, Stamford Public Schools finance

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With several principal positions open for the 2011-12 school year, Stamford Public Schools decided to add an extra step in the selection process. The finalists will visit the schools with openings next week, Superintendent Joshua Starr said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting.

“We are looking for local input,” Starr said of the interviews to be done at the schools. The interview committees are made up of two parents, two teachers, a special education teacher/support staff, paraprofessional, current principal, Stamford Education Association president and co-president,

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Revamping No Child Left Behind could mean that Stamford and other school districts in Connecticut would not be labeled “in need of improvement,” President Barack Obama said Monday. The president is calling on Congress to “fix” the law by the beginning of the next school year.

“We need to make sure we’re graduating students who are ready for college and a career,” the president said in remarks at a Virginia middle school. “In the 21st century, it’s not enough to leave no child behind. We need to help every child get ahead.  We need to get every

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For the pupils in Debbie Okun’s kindergarten class at K.T. Murphy School, celebrating the first 100 days of school Friday was sweet. Make that “Yummy.”

That’s the word many students echoed as they bit into pieces of chocolate-and-vanilla cake marking the milestone. Friday, Feb. 18, was the 100th day the youngsters have been in school this academic year.

Five-year-old Gabriella Silba’s mom, Tatiana Silba, made the cake. She worked on it, said Gabriella, “when I was sleeping and when I was at school.”

The youngsters helped decorate it with 100

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