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Public speakers urge Lowell School Committee to preserve arts leadership and student-support staff in FY27 budget
Summary
At an April 1 Lowell School Committee hearing, students, teachers and parents urged the committee to retain the fine-arts chair, counselors, the BRIGHT program and other student-facing positions in the proposed FY27 budget; the superintendent and high-school head were asked to return next week with more detail.
At its April 1 meeting, the Lowell School Committee opened a public hearing on the proposed FY27 budget and heard more than a dozen students, teachers and parents urging the committee to preserve fine-arts leadership and key student-support positions, including the BRIGHT program, college-and-career counselors and freshman academy counselors. "I have autism…before I discovered the arts, I was a kid commonly in my shell," said Jordan Ferrer Falberg, a Lowell High School freshman, testifying in favor of keeping a dedicated arts chair.
Speakers told the committee that proposed cuts would reduce access and equity across the district. Alba Quilan Lamboy, a Lowell Public Schools social worker who described BRIGHT as an intensive classroom-based intervention,…
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