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With the start of the school year comes a re-starting of the School Committee as well. This year I will continue to detail the public process in which you have elected the 7 members of our committee to serve. 

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What’s next in Natick for the School Committee? 

The Natick School Committee will meet on Wednesday evening, 8/31 at 6:30 p.m. to tie up some of the business from the 2021-2022 school year. 


Our first official business meeting for the 2022-2023 school year is Monday, September 12th. We will meet again for a business meeting on Monday, September 19th. (Typically our business meetings are the first and third Mondays of the month.)


*Our agendas and links to the materials are posted at least 48 hours before the meeting on the Town Website.  

*To subscribe to notifications about our public meet calendar, and any others in Natick, click on this link to enter your email and choose the meetings you would like to be alerted about.  


Back to Basics…. What is a School Committee?  

“The school committee establishes educational goals and policies for the schools in the district, consistent with the requirements of law and the statewide goals and standards established by the Board of Education. (G.L. c. 71,[section] 37) The school committee's status as the "employer" for collective bargaining purposes remains unaltered by Education Reform. (G.L. c. 150E, [section] 1)”


Chapter 71, Section 37 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the School Committee

"shall have the power to select and to terminate the superintendent, shall review and approve budgets for public education in the district and shall establish educational goals and policies for the schools in the district consistent with the requirements of law and statewide goals and standards established by the Massachusetts Board of Education."

It also conducts collective bargaining with all employee organizations.

Interested in reading about Schools, Governance and education? 

 Here are two other blogs/newsletters that I subscribe to: 

Who's Who of Worcester -   by Tracy Novick, Veteran School Committee member - she covers everything related to her committee in Worcester and many things from the State level.

The Boston Schools Fund - a newsletter with thought provoking information and the use of data to improve schools in Boston.

Useable Knowledge - by the Graduate school of Education at Harvard

Education Next - Podcast - and for when I can’t read but have time to listen… opinion and research put out by the Kennedy School at Harvard


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