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Woburn committee authorizes chair to seek funding for modular classrooms amid redistricting debate
Summary
After months of discussion and a detailed facilities briefing, the Woburn School Committee voted 5–2 to ask the city to pursue modular classrooms from Nauset Public Schools as a way to reduce immediate space pressure and enable cleaner redistricting maps; committee members and residents urged careful site, cost and timeline study before purchase.
The Woburn School Committee on Feb. 26 voted 5–2 to authorize the committee chair to pursue funding and agreements to acquire modular classrooms from Nauset Public Schools and to request a feasibility study and timeline from city officials.
The move followed a detailed presentation from Facilities Director Lenny Burnham, who described the set of 37 modular units the district has been offered and the preliminary cost estimates. “We would look at trying to just basically pick it up in pieces and move it here,” Burnham said, describing an approach intended to limit reengineering of the units and reduce design costs.
Why it matters: Committee members and administrators said the district faces immediate space pressure in multiple elementary schools and needs options that allow a long-term redistricting plan without repeatedly moving children. Superintendent Dr. Crowley told the committee the modulars “buy the city time to build…
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