Woburn school committee endorses task force recommendation to pursue modular classrooms for early childhood program

The Woburn School Committee on Wednesday voted to endorse a recommendation from the Early Childhood Program (ECP) task force to pursue modular classrooms as an interim solution to address immediate space shortages for preschool students.

The committee’s vote follows several task‑force meetings and a site visit to modular classrooms used at Nauset High School. The task force, which included teachers, ECP coordinators, the district facilities director and school administrators, told the committee modular units would allow the ECP to consolidate classrooms now split between multiple buildings and restore the program’s peer placements and staff collaboration.

The ECP is currently spread across two elementary schools; the task force said that configuration fragments staff, complicates daily logistics and reduces the district’s ability to enroll tuition‑paying peer students. Task force members reported that they examined available district spaces, private commercial…