First week of school agenda

The September 2 agenda of the Worcester School Committee is up.
The first order of business is committee consideration of the recess policy (if you care, please come!). We also have the information regarding all of the summer transfers (including teachers who had to re-apply for their jobs), new hires, and retirements.
The Finance and Operations subcommittee report is coming back to the full committee. This includes the end of year balances for FY10, a proposed sign policy for Foley Stadium, a proposed course of action for South High's pool, and a proposed method of dealing with grants (making them all, in various ways, public).
Mrs. Mullaney has a couple of proposed items regarding summer: summertime administrative coverage, and the avaliablity of student schedules over the summer.
I've also co-sponsored an item on International Walk to School Day, which is October 6. I hope that if your children attend a neighborhood school and it's walkable, you'll walk to school that Wednesday, and ask others to join you! I hope this can also be a chance to have some conversations around what does and doesn't make it possible to have kids walk to school.