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Committee approves Cape Cod Collaborative amendment, transfers, donations and multiple policy updates
Summary
The Nantucket School Committee approved a package of motions including amendments to the Cape Cod Collaborative articles of agreement, a $450,000 special-education transfer, several donations to the community school, and multiple policy updates and consolidations.
The Nantucket School Committee took a series of routine votes at the March 18 meeting, approving amendments, transfers, donations and policy updates.
Key motions approved (each motion moved, seconded and carried by voice vote):
- Approve the meeting agenda for March 18 (motion passed by voice vote). - Approve the Cape Cod Collaborative amended articles of agreement (motion passed); the amendment discussed earlier in the meeting adds Plymouth Public Schools as a member and removes an “adjunct membership” category that DESE no longer recognizes, according to Cape Cod Collaborative executive director Dr. Hope Hanscomb. - Approve a transfer of $450,000 from the Special Education Stabilization Fund to Special Education Tuition (motion passed). - Accept a $30,000 donation from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation to the Nantucket Community School for ACVenture Camp and early childhood play groups (motion passed). - Accept a donation of children’s books (estimated value $500) from the Nantucket Book Foundation to the Nantucket Community School (motion passed). - Accept a donation of 50 “Your Guide to Childbirth” books (English and Spanish) from Human Services to the Nantucket Community School (motion passed). - Approve updates to multiple policies: ID (School Day); IGA/IDG (curriculum development and adoption — the committee combined IGA and IDG into a consolidated policy labeled IGA/IGT); IGB (Support Services); IHEM (Health Education); IHEEH (Alternative School Programs); IHCA (Summer School); and IJ (Instructional Materials). The committee also approved a motion described in the meeting as removing policy I E (Organization of Instruction) as it related to a mask recommendation; the motion carried by voice vote. - Approve transfers and invoices (motion passed). - Adjourn (motion passed).
None of the votes that evening included a recorded roll-call tally in the public transcript; each motion was carried by voice vote indicated as “Aye.” Several items were discussed earlier in the meeting (for example, the Cape Cod Collaborative amendment was introduced and explained by Dr. Hope Hanscomb during the superintendent’s update), while most policy updates were presented and moved with no extended debate recorded in the transcript.
