At the August 10 meeting of the Greenfield School Committee, committee member Kathryn Martini asked Superintendent DeBarge a broad question about the general direction that the district is headed: DeBarge’s full response is worth a listen, but the question itself speaks to a general concern I have with this district. I want to be clear…
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Buses, computers, supplies, and other miscellany from the Budget & Finance Subcommittee
I managed to catch pieces and parts of the School Committee’s Budget & Finance Subcommittee meeting this morning. The main agenda item for the meeting was an update on the FY211 budget, and GPS Business Manager Andy Paquette was at the meeting to review the report he had generated and answer the committee members’ questions.…
So… what’s next for the GPS re-opening plan?
As I mentioned in a previous post, the School Committee, having received the HVAC evaluation and report for the school buildings, has reiterated its support for the district to move to Phase 2 of its re-opening plan. In case you’ve lost track (or never knew in the first place), we are currently in Phase 1,…
GPS has completed its first round of HVAC evaluations and remediations.
Last night’s School Committee meeting provided us with an update on the evaluation and remediation work on the HVAC systems in all of the school buildings in preparation for the return of students to in-person learning. Ben Cenedalla from Nexus Consulting joined the meeting to provide a summary of the report his company has compiled…
Greenfield Public Schools really needs to improve its communication around the re-opening plan.
I am watching the recording of last night’s School Committee meeting. I am only about twenty minutes into it, but the single public commenter’s remarks about communication from the district hit on a topic that has been bothering me as well. We are at some point in the district’s phased re-opening plan, and the only…
An update on Greenfield’s school re-opening plan
I just sat through the recording of last night’s School Committee meeting, having happened to notice yesterday that an update on the re-opening plan was on the agenda. At the the one-hour-and-42-minute mark, the Committee got to the update. If you scroll way down to the end of the meeting packet for last night’s meeting,…
Live-blogging: GPS Policy & Programs Subcommittee
I am currently sitting in the April 24 meeting of the Policy & Programs Subcommittee of the Greenfield Schools Committee. See below for updates… Here is the link to the full GPS Policy Manual. Sounds like they will be talking through the process for reviewing and adopting GPS policies, which has been overwhelming in previous…
GPS Policy & Program Subcommittee meeting later today
The Policy & Program Subcommittee of the Greenfield School Committee is having one of its regular meetings later today. Here is the current agenda: Call to Order Public Comment Review Policies related to Policy Adoption and Processing BG: School Committee Policy Development BGB: Policy Adoption BGC: Policy Revision and Review Initiate Policy Action from Health…
Summarizing Wednesday night’s School Committee meeting
The Greenfield School Committee held its regularly monthly meeting this past Wednesday night (April 11). You can find my live updates of the meeting here and here. GCTV should have the recorded video of the meeting available online sometime in the next 2-3 days. I think it’s worth taking a moment to step back and…
The School Committee is moving on to the SRO discussion.
Chief Haigh is now speaking to the School Committee, responding a list of questions he has received from them. Chief Haigh says the budget number is $124k, not the $200k+ number that has been getting kicked around various conversation. Vehicles have been removed from the proposal. Review of the SRO cannot happen in open session…