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Community requests dedication of ABECC preschool wing to Mary Lou Connors; committee to vote Nov. 20
Summary
Public commenters asked the North Andover School Committee to dedicate Building 1 (the preschool wing of the Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center) to longtime early childhood educator Mary Lou Connors. The committee requested public comment and scheduled a vote for Nov. 20.
Community members asked the North Andover School Committee on Oct. 23 to dedicate Building 1 at the Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center (ABECC) to Mary Lou Connors, a longtime early childhood special education teacher and program leader.
Kim Angelo, a teacher at the Early Childhood Center, told the committee that Connors led the town’s preschool and early childhood special education program from its start in 1989 through the creation of the ABECC and served as director of early childhood education until her recent retirement. Angelo and other speakers described Connors’s work building the program and supporting families of children with complex needs.
The committee invited public comment and asked the community to attend and speak at an upcoming meeting; the committee will take a formal vote on Nov. 20. The committee secretary said submitted letters and emails would be entered into the meeting minutes in full if provided in writing.
Speakers during the public comment segment also read and summarized multiple emailed messages from parents and staff praising Connors’s decades of service and recommending the naming action.
No formal motion or vote on the naming occurred at the Oct. 23 meeting; the committee set the record to accept public comment and indicated the vote is scheduled for the Nov. 20 meeting.
