Superintendent's Proposed Working Groups for 2017-2018 (5 minutes)

Transcript (~4 min @ 43:40)

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▶ 43:43 Speaker 3: questions seeing them the two working groups I have going for the fall are the activities fee group and they met June 19th they will meet again June 18th October 16th November 13th and their goal is to have a recommendation to the

▶ 44:05 Speaker 3: school committee by budget season this is a slightly different committee than we've had in the past because we're including in this committee drama and band parents parents of students in regular activities as well as parents of athletic activity students so you should have that late December the other thing is the late start implementation committee which is five management and five Union and we will be meeting throughout this year so those are the two working committees I have at this time questions for the superintendent on

▶ 44:38 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: proposed working groups for 1718 okay and the last thing I just want to give

▶ 44:45 Speaker 3: you a heads up on and we will bring it forward to the next school committee is miss Farrell Heather Josephson and myself have been working on a scholarship program for ed stations as you know from the enrollment figures that i had shared recently we have a number of concerns regarding the number of our students on free and reduced lunch as well as homeless students or students new to this country who may not be able to afford the after-school program and we uh we think we have a good proposal for setting up a scholarship in some of our buildings heather met with representatives from the um permanent scholarship committee at the high school long-standing well-established committee to talk to them about practices regulations how you go about thinking about applications what you look for what what information you ask for and we will be bringing that forward to you on the 29th is that our next meeting additional um

▶ 46:00 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: 26 26 26 yeah and when that does go on our agenda that will go under the finance and facilities subcommittee to let everyone know that it would would not be on the rolling agenda that you would see at this point this is the

▶ 46:16 Speaker 7: Callister grant I had a question on the working groups do we have liaisons or representatives on either of those from the committee no if I may madam chair I

▶ 46:23 Speaker 5: am on the activities fee working group and the b2 and b2 yes which is a

▶ 46:33 Speaker 7: negotiation committee correct but the late start implementation thank you

▶ 46:39 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: other questions or comments and you had one more item yeah just before I forget

▶ 46:41 Speaker 3: it is national concussion week and you do have the concussion report in the warrant but I do want to show you the work that's being done at the high

▶ 46:54 Speaker 3: school we're doing a training with all the coaches and all the coaches will now have a flip chat that will help them make decisions all of our students are being taught and these will be around the building the concussion pledge to be educated honest and supportive and about getting receiving concussions and supporting their colleagues and all of our all of our athletes will have on their bags a little card that points out what they should look for so we are doing a lot of education around that this week any questions for the