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…
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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…
I have gotten no further response from Chief Haigh regarding the SRO expansion proposal.
I emailed Greenfield Chief of Police Robert Haigh on Wednesday, April 4 asking if it was accurate to characterize his position on the expansion of the School Resource Officer program to be that the School Committee can be involved, but that the allocation of more SROs is a decision that rests with the Police Department…
The GPS strategic plan & superintendent evaluation
Thanks to some links passed along by School Committee Chair Adrienne Nunez in response to some of the questions I raised in my previous post regarding the operating model for Greenfield Public Schools, I now have a better picture of how the various pieces fit together. The strategic plan for GPS can be found here.…
Is there an overall operating model for Greenfield Public Schools?
I am finally catching up on the January 2018 meeting of the School Committee, and I am on the second agenda item, which is the Superintendent’s goals for the 2017/2018 school year. Watching Superintendent Harper and the committee members go back and forth about the proposed goals, I get the sense that they are struggling…