Worcester School Committee meets Thursday

The agenda mysteriously was not posted for a bit, but it's up now.
The report of the superintendent is on college and career readiness.
There are a number of recognitions and congratulations.
Burncoat Middle is asking that it be renamed Burncoat Middle School for the Arts.
There's a motion to support Senator Chandler's bill on enhancing civics (please tell me that someone check its report out of Joint Committee).

The committte is asked to accept a $700 field trip grant to Woodland Academy; donations of $184.67 to Tatnuck Magnet School from Papa Gino’s Pizzeria, $75 to the Worcester Public Schools for the Model UN Club, $250 to Doherty Memorial High School for a Memorial Scholarship in memory of Giovan Diaz; the Massachusetts Life Sciences grant  of $22,897 (check out the backup; an after-school bioltechnology program!);
The committee is also being asked to approve a prior fiscal year payment of $8,959.88 to MPS - Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC.
The committee is also being asked to approve summer camps at South High...does the district have a revolving fund for this? 

Two scheduling notes for budget time: it's time to schedule the budget hearing, and administration looks to be attempting to have the City Council Education committee meeting with Finance and Operations again.

Mr. O'Connell is looking for policy under the "Children Requiring Assistance" statute.

Mr. Comparetto is asking for the ratio of social workers to students (does Worcester have social workers?) and if school resource officers are trained as social workers (no).

Mayor Petty is seeking a meeting with Brockton (!) to talk about suing the state over the foundation budget.
He's also filed this:

Request that the Superintendent coordinate a 17 minute Walkout Day on March 14, 2018 with all students and teachers in the Worcester Public Schools to commemorate with a one minute moment of silence for each of the people who died on February 14th at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Miss Biancheria requested an update on ALICE training, which has been submitted as follows:

The "eLearning" is a video to watch online. 

A reminder, by the way, that the change in policy to ALICE was never approved by the school committee in Worcester. 

There is also an executive session on four rounds of litigation.