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Votes at a glance: superintendent ratified, multiple policies and trips approved
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Summary
At its April 9 meeting the Easton School Committee ratified a superintendent contract effective July 1, approved multiple policy revisions, endorsed a teacher-led Quebec trip, and approved grant/contract items including transportation extensions; the meeting ended by moving to executive session for negotiations.
The Easton School Committee approved a series of formal actions on April 9, 2026. Key votes and outcomes recorded by roll call are summarized below.
• Superintendent contract: The committee ratified the employment agreement dated March 31, 2026, appointing Christine Pruitt as superintendent of Easton Public Schools effective July 1, 2026. The motion passed on a roll-call vote.
• Policy approvals: The committee approved deletion of policy BEDH-E (guidelines for public comment), and approved policies DJE (bidding requirements), EBC (emergency plans), IHAMA (parental notification as revised to use the word “topics”), IJNDB (empowered digital use), and JEB (entrance age clarifications). Each was moved, seconded, and approved by roll call.
• Scholarship: Director Spagna summarized the Patrick J. Brennan Memorial Scholarship, a family-funded $1,000 award for an Oliver Ames graduating student-athlete; no committee vote was required for acceptance of the scholarship.
• Travel: The committee approved a foreign-travel request for a teacher-led Quebec trip during February vacation; the teacher outlined two changes to the itinerary (leave Friday to attend daytime Carnaval activities and extend the trip to 5 days/4 nights).
• Contracts and other motions: See the transportation article for approved two-year extensions to district transportation contracts (regular education, special-education vans and a VHS out-of-district agreement) and associated financial notes.
• Executive session: The committee voted to enter executive session and not return to open session to discuss strategy for negotiations with nonunion personnel, collective bargaining with the EEA units and an Open Meeting Law complaint, and to review specified executive-session minutes.
Recorded roll-call tallies for each action appear in the committee minutes and were captured in the meeting record. Where exact vote counts or absences were not read aloud, the minutes record the roll-call affirmations given during the meeting.
