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Votes at a glance: Beverly School Committee approves Puerto Rico trip, policy edits and budget items
Summary
At its Oct. 8 meeting, the Beverly School Committee approved a middle‑school trip to Puerto Rico, directed edits to drug‑prevention and special‑education observation policies, and approved multiple financial items including grants and transfers.
The Beverly School Committee on Oct. 8 approved a five‑day educational trip for Beverly Middle School students to Puerto Rico in April 2026 and adopted several procedural and budget items during a meeting at Beverly Middle School.
The actions taken included: formal approval of the Puerto Rico field trip; adoption of language to add “nicotine” to the district’s teaching about alcohol, tobacco and drugs guidance; edits to the observations-of-special-education‑programs policy to specify removal of “confidential” materials and to include the observed educator among recipients of certain observation reports; and approvals of warrants, grants, budget transfers and student activity account receipts and closures.
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