Thursday, June 16, 2011

Worcester School Committee: last before summer! (now updated with actual information)

The Worcester School Committee has its final school year meeting tonight.
The meeting begins at 4 pm in City Hall with the budget. I don't think I'm giving anything away to say that you should expect to see lots of transfers tonight. As the teachers' contract is settled, we'll need to transfer money from unemployment and health insurance to the teachers' salary account to bring back teachers. There may be other transfers of like sort.
It will recess for executive session once the budget is complete and come back for the regular session, including Superintendent Boone's annual evaluation, at 7 pm (or thereabouts; exec may run long tonight). You will find the agenda here.
The School Committee is supposed to submit the evaluations in writing to the School Committee clerk ahead of time (for those of you who like insider baseball: not all are in). As the T&G has requested them as well, it would not surprise me to find that they'll be posting them online, as they did last year. I have asked that they be posted as an attachment to this agenda, as well, but please realize that it may take a day or more. 
Other items on the agenda:
  • Chandler Magnet is requesting uniforms
  • a few retirements and hirings
  • the annual "allow transfers to clear up the fiscal year" request
  • a presentation on community responsibility
  • donation and grant acceptances, including $45,000 on a graduation initiative
  • congratulations to students on art of various kinds
Not only at City Hall, but on Channel 11, and online

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