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Stoughton School Committee adopts operating norms, grants chair discretion to take items out of order
Summary
After extended debate about professional-development costs and meeting practices, the Stoughton School Committee voted to adopt a set of operating norms for the year and to give the chair discretion to take agenda items out of order to accommodate guests.
The Stoughton School Committee voted Oct. 14 to adopt a set of meeting norms for the 2025–26 school year and to give the committee chair discretion to take agenda items out of order to accommodate guests.
The vote to adopt the norms, which the committee developed with facilitator Paul Zinni on July 22, passed 4–1 after sustained discussion about whether the norms duplicated existing policy and how the committee would enforce them. Committee members also debated costs associated with the consultant-led workshop that produced the norms.
The committee separately approved…
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