School Committee

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The Beaufort County School District has scheduled the first meeting of a Committee charged with recommending one calendar for all schools, even as the district continues to search for members, a district official said. ...

Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 38 days ago
T he Howard County Board of Education has expanded its Committee system to enable members to get a better grasp of a larger range of issues associated with the public School system. ...

Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 15 days ago
2nd Wednesday of each month at 7PM at the Starr Center at Moorestown High School. ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 2 days ago
The Arlington School Committee acknowledges that the abrupt departure of our former superintendent has created concern in the community over the impact it will have on the Arlington Public Schools in the months to come. At the same time, we hope to assure you that this departure should have no impact on the educational experiences of the students we serve. In September, our children will return to classrooms run by quality teachers who are ready to teach in buildings run by our principals who have been a core part of our leadership team and understand the goals for the School system.     The faculty and staff have been working together for months to prepare for the 2008-09 School year.   The events of the past week have not interfered with the pace of work or productivity. We are confident in the abilities of the entire staff and faculty to do what they do best — educate our students. Interim Superintendent Kathy Bodie has been a key member of this team for the past year as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, and before that for eight years as Mathematics K-12 curriculum leader. As interim superintendent, Kathy provides continuity in this transitional period. She has a deep understanding of the School culture and a firm grasp on curriculum. Most important, she is a committed, forward thinking educator who puts students first. Kathy has a solid understanding of what has to happen to get ready for Septem ...

Source: www.aclu.org --- 19 days ago
Washington, DC – The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled today to mark up S. 3155, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2008 (JJDPA), a bill setting standards and providing funding to protect the rights of juveniles in the criminal justice system. ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 13 days ago
The School Committee has decided to allow a non-profit organization to engage in conversations with Gloucester residents regarding the issue of teenage pregnancy. School Committee members, the mayor, and the media will not be allowed at any of the meetings, called “Community Conversations.” Mayor Carolyn Kirk said she recommends the Community Conversations carry on, but with the city, the Public Health Department, and the School Committee disengaged from the process. To facilitate the conversations, the Public Conversations Project has stepped forward. The Public Conversations Project is a Watertown-based organization with a mission to “guide, train, and inspire individuals, organizations, and communities to constructively address conflicts relating to values and worldviews.” With the elected officials and Public Health Department disengaged from the Community Conversations, the meetings are not subject to the open meeting law. In a memorandum to Kirk, Suzanne Egan, who is serving as the city’s legal counsel, wrote that “a social service agency or health care provider is not a governmental body and not subject to the open meeting law. Therefore, if the Public Conversation meetings are held under the auspices of a social service agency or a health care provider then they are not subject to the open meeting law.” School Committee member Val Gilman said she feels that the meetings were initially designed for School Committee members ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 12 days ago
The School Committee last night approved a $25 increase in athletic fees for the next School year, bringing the total fee per student to $225 to participate in any sport. The family cap was raised to $900, four times the $225 amount. That cap is not applied toward those playing lacrosse and ice hockey, meaning that parents whose children plays those sports will be paying more. Lacrosse and hockey typically cost more to run. Superintendent Judith Evans said that while she wishes students did not have to pay fees at all, parents will understand the increase. "We are pleased the increase is not more than $25," she said. "I think it is a reasonable increase." David Vertolino, director of operations and finance for School district, and Robert Pearl, director of athletics, proposed a handful of alternatives for the fees. One alternative placed a $225 fee for every sport except lacrosse, which would cost $250. "It is inequitable for the lacrosse players to pay more and have it not count toward the family cap," said School Committee Chairman Diane Borgatti. "It is not fair to the kids that play both lacrosse and hockey." Committee member Shelley Wieler said that all sports at Medway High School should be treated the same. "If lacrosse is under the umbrella of Medway sports, it should not be excluded from the cap," she said. Pearl said the fee increase would allow the athletic department not to depend on money from booster organizations. "I wou ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 13 days ago
The Regional School Committee, at a special open meeting Wednesday night, pushed off the decision on how to allocate a state grant reimbursement at least until next month. The Committee opened the meeting at 7 p.m., then went into an 1 1/2-hour executive session to discuss the reimbursement issue with special counsel Tom Harrington. Following the executive session, Committee Chairwoman Joan Frank read a statement to members of the audience, which included members of the Northborough Board of Selectmen, Southborough Board of Selectmen and other town officials. "The Committee has determined that it is in the district's best interest to take no specific action on the matter tonight," Frank said. "We will be issuing a written statement at the Sept. 17 meeting. We will have no further comment until that meeting." At stake is a grant reimbursement from the $60 million Algonquin Regional High School renovation project. Northborough and Southborough disagree on how the money should be divided between the towns, and who should make that decision. At a June 18 Committee meeting, Northborough and Southborough officials urged the Committee to move forward on the issue. The Committee decided it would take up the issue at its meeting last night. Southborough's stance is that the money should be allocated based on a regional agreement on the four-year average enrollments of the towns' student populations, said Selectman Bill Boland at the June me ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 6 days ago
School Committee member Val Gilman was the lone vote against renewing School Superintendent Christopher Farmer’s contract with the city through 2010 Wednesday night at City Hall, after a performance review that was virtually unanimous in both praise and criticism. With “four” being considered a perfect score, Farmer earned a written average among all members of the School Committee of 3.26. After each member spoke glowingly of Farmer’s strengths — policy writing, strategy, budget savvy, keeping the interests of students at heart, taking emotion out of his decision-making — the one weakness repeated by all, including Mayor Carolyn Kirk, was Farmer’s issues with partnership and collaborative style, within the administration and among teachers and the community. It was this issue in particular that motivated Gilman to cast her vote against renewal, though she did so reluctantly and reassured Farmer that she truly admires his strengths. “I am concerned,” Gilman said. “It is so important for the superintendent to be able to work in partnership. For that reason I must vote no.” The written reviews of Farmer’s performance were to have been discussed at last week’s regular meeting, several days before Gloucester High School principal Joseph Sullivan resigned his post and generated community-wide anger and dismay at the administration for not having stood by him when the teen pregnancy story erupted in media frenzy in June. Wednesday night, th ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 32 days ago
School Committee member Rick Wynn will leave the School Committee at the end of the month to focus on starting a new business, he said yesterday. Wynn served just over four years on the School Committee and was chairman much of last year, an eventful year for Natick schools. The seat will be filled by a person appointed jointly by the School Committee and selectmen. "I'm going to be in the process of trying to start a new business, and I just really have to dedicate all my energy trying to get that business off the ground," Wynn said. "And I need to save some time for my family, too." After being appointed to fill the vacancy left when Christine Van Amsterdam left the School Committee, Wynn won a three-year term in 2005. In March Wynn won a second full term on the board, but at the time said he did not think he would leave the board so soon. "I knew it was possible I wouldn't be able to finish the term, but I didn't know timing," Wynn said. "It came sooner than I thought." Wynn manages a private equity fund at Putnam Investments, but said his new business would be in a different field. He did not elaborate on his plans. School Committee Chairman Stephen Meyler praised Wynn's work as a member, especially his time as chairman from March 2007 to March 2008. During that year the School Committee found a new leader for the district, went to voters with a Proposition 2 1/2 override and dealt with the controversy over the Redmen nicknam ...

Source: www.localendar.com --- 37 days ago
(Tue, 08 Jul 2008 7 PM - 9 PM EST) 7:00PM at High School Library ...

Source: www.lancastereaglegazette.com --- 23 days ago
CARROLL -The Bloom-Carroll Local School District is calling to session an emergency meeting at 6:30 p.m. today, following discovery of foundation deterioration that compromises the structural integrity of Carroll Elementary School's "1910" building. ...

Source: www.islandpacket.com --- 40 days ago
By JONATHAN CRIBBS jcribbs@beaufortgazette.com 843-986-5517 ...

Source: www.dailynewstribune.com --- 21 days ago
School Committee members unanimously approved Peter Azar's superintendent contract and voted to accept the newly renovated Whittemore Elementary School during last night's special meeting. Mayor Jeannette McCarthy asked Committee members to accept a contract drafted by School Committee attorney Sean Sweeney for Azar to act as a consultant for an interim period in the days leading up to his official appointment as the new superintendent. Azar was selected as superintendent of Waltham schools on June 18. He was named superintendent of Winchendon schools in 2004. Azar is expected to begin his first day of work as the new superintendent on Aug. 18. In the interim, Azar will be hired to begin learning about the district. From Aug. 4 to 8, he will review contracts and study the School improvement plan in preparation of his new position. The Committee also voted last night to accept a new elementary School. The Whittemore Elementary School at 30 Parmenter Road is the eighth and final public School the city has worked to renovate or replace since 2001. The renovations cost approximately $25 million. The School is rated for 516 students and is expected to open with 300 to 350 students in September. Jeff Gilbride can be reached at 781-398-8005 or at jgilbrid@cnc.com ...

Source: www.beaufortgazette.com --- 7 days ago
Let the debate begin. ...

Source: www.tauntongazette.com --- 14 days ago
The appointment of a guidance counselor to assistant principal at Martin Middle School left some questions Wednesday night on whether the guidance position would be filled. In the end, the School Committee approved member Janis Nowak’s motion to fill empty guidance positions, but not after an extensive discussion, which was prompted by the announcement that Daniel Fagan was appointed to be assistant principal at Martin and was granted a one-year leave of absence from his position of guidance counselor at the School. “When the Committee approved the budget, there were two pages of priorities, then six positions to be cut through attrition,” Superintendent Arthur W. Stellar said, explaining that a pair of vacant guidance positions could be left unfilled, and thus eliminated through attrition. “If we hit the six, then we won’t have to cut it,” he added. “It looks like we’re probably going to get there, but we’re not there now.” Nowak argued that the guidance positions, which were not vacant when the budget was approved this spring, should not be cut. “My understanding was that the attrition was for that moment in time,” she said. After she motioned to fill the guidance positions, Barry Cooperstein, the only Committee member to oppose her motion, said Stellar should decide which vacancies to leave unfilled, since he is in charge of the “big picture.” He added that since he joined the Committee in 1993, he has been concerned that there ...

Source: www.eagletribune.com --- 6 days ago
METHUEN — If a School Committee member has a question of School administrators, they better put it in writing. That's the gist of a new School Committee policy which requires any Committee member who wants information from a School administrator to make a request in writing. That written request will then be voted on by the full School board at its next meeting before the question can be asked. ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 7 days ago
People crowded into a meeting room in the Education Center Thursday night to plea for some part of the half-million dollar surplus in the School Department’s $160 million budget. Parents wanted the money to ease their child’s class size. School Committee members were divided over whether to use part of the money for special education or regular education staffing. With class sizes approaching 28 and 29 in some elementary schools, parents from Cabot, Memorial-Spaulding, Mason-Rice, Peirce and Lincoln Eliot elementary schools made their case for more staffing at the Thursday night meeting of the School Committee. “I can’t stand the thought that Newton parents are fighting over this tiny little pot of money,” said Erin Delaney, a Cabot parent, speaking in front of the crowded room. Turning to the School Committee she said, “I really don’t envy the decisions you have to make.” She added, “We trust you to do the best you can with what you’ve got. You are going to put the best Band-Aids on the wounds you can. That’s your job. My job as a parent, of course, is to advocate for my kids.” Deep cuts across the district as a result of the failed override left many constituents in the boxing ring, battling over .3 percent of the budget on Thursday night. An extra $561,000 came back to the department from health insurance accounts and leftovers from the last School year. Before dispersing the add-backs to various accounts, School Committee members w ...