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Everett School Committee accepts $5,000 kindergarten literacy grant and approves $1.56 million in bills/payroll
Summary
At its Feb. 3 meeting the Everett School Committee accepted a $5,000 School Works Changemakers grant for kindergarten literacy, received a superintendent’s update including a "no findings" special education audit and an immigration guidance memo for staff, and approved bills and payroll totaling $1,555,829.51.
The Everett School Committee on Monday accepted a $5,000 literacy grant for kindergarten students, approved bills and payroll totaling $1,555,829.51 and heard a superintendent update that included a special education audit with no findings and new staff guidance on immigration-related issues.
The committee voted unanimously, 8–0, to accept the School Works Changemakers grant, which the superintendent said will provide take-home books for kindergarten students and support family literacy activities. "This is one of those grants that will continue to help us move forward with strengthening our literacy programs across the district," the superintendent said while describing the program’s goal of getting books into students’ homes.
During the superintendent’s report, district leadership described a tiered special education audit that concluded with "no findings." The superintendent said, "there was nothing that we were not in compliance with, and no action is required," and called the result "a statement and testament to the work that our folks do each and every day."
The superintendent also briefed the committee on a memo prepared for staff addressing immigration-related concerns. The memo, developed with the district’s social-emotional team, the Elliott Family Resource Center and the Everett Police Department, outlines differences between a judge-issued subpoena and an administrative warrant, encourages staff to wear identification, reminds schools to secure doors and notes that contracted public-safety personnel are assigned to buildings. "At the end of the day, nobody can come in our buildings, period," the superintendent said in describing the memo’s intent.
Student representative Kelly St. Ford reported upcoming senior nights for girls basketball and other winter-sports events and said the student advisory board is planning outreach to eighth graders.
The committee also approved routine items including acceptance of prior meeting minutes, subcommittee reports and placing the superintendent’s report on file. The meeting concluded with the committee setting its next meeting for Feb. 25.
Votes at a glance - Accept School Works Changemakers grant, $5,000 — Motion: made by Miss Babcock; seconded by Miss Cornelia; Roll call: Almeda Barros (yes), Miss Babcock (yes), Miss Barrows (yes), Miss Cornelia (yes), Mr. D'Onofrio (yes), Miss Garren (yes), Mr. Lamonica (yes), Madam Chair (yes). Outcome: approved (8–0). - Submit and refer bills/payroll, $1,555,829.51 — Motion: not specified; Roll call: same eight members recorded as yes. Outcome: approved (8–0). - Pay bills/payroll, $1,555,829.51 — Motion: not specified; Roll call: same eight members recorded as yes. Outcome: approved (8–0). - Accept student representative report and place on file — voice vote recorded as passed. - Accept superintendent’s report and place on file — voice vote recorded as passed.
No executive session was recorded in the public portion of the transcript.
