A proposed budget using the Warrant Committee's "Available Funds" for the school proposes eliminating five full time teaching positions, art and music instruction at the elementary school level, language instruction at the middle school level and steep cuts to support services district wide. Time to get angry, people!
Just a heads up, y'all, that there are a slew of important budget meetings looming, starting this Tuesday evening, January 11, when School Superintendent, Dr. Entwistle will present the proposed FY 2012 budget to the School Committee. This meeting is in the Community Room at Chenery Middle School and will be the public's first...
Two events to put on your calendar: an October 13 chat with Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Murphy on the state of the State's budget. Then set aside the evening of October 27 for an important Community Dialog on the future direction of the public schools.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7:30 in the Chenery Middle School Community Room, the School Committee will be holding the first of a series of Workshops to provide for more open dialog with the community.
The rancor over President Obama's speech to children tomorrow doesn't reflect well on either side. As is often the case in brush ups like this, the needs and opinions of the kids in question have been pushed to the side...the better to clear space for the grown ups to fight. Hopefully President Obama's...
There will be a public meeting tomorrow evening to discuss the progress of the New Wellington Elementary project.
The Belmont Citizen Herald is reporting that Belmont's legal counsel has issued a response to the Middlesex District Attorney that claims town officials who met behind closed doors to formulate plans to discuss the consolidation of School and Town services were not doing so in violation of the State's Open Meeting Laws.
The Middlesex District Attorney's Office is inquiring into the doings of an informal, private gathering of some of the Town's top elected officials with questions about whether the group ran afoul of the State's Open Meeting Law, according to the Belmont Citizen Herald.
Belmont's latest consolidation plan is the product of an informal and closed door group of the Town's senior elected officials that some have dubbed the "Officers' Group." Is Belmont closing the doors on Open Government?
