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Woburn school committee explains its role, election cycle and how residents can engage
Summary
A Woburn School Committee member outlined the committee’s oversight responsibilities, its seven-member structure, how members are elected and multiple ways residents can follow and participate in meetings.
Jesse Wetzel, a member of the Woburn Public Schools School Committee, described the committee’s primary duties and how residents can follow and take part in district governance during a Oct. 15 interview on Life Unlimited.
Wetzel said the committee’s basic responsibilities mirror guidance from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees: “the role of the school committee is to oversee the superintendent ... to approve the budget and then to approve policies,” and to maintain transparency and dialogue with the community.
The committee represents all of Woburn’s schools — seven elementary schools, two middle schools, one high school and the district’s early childhood program — and meets publicly, Wetzel said. She outlined the committee’s structure and election rules: there…
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