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School committee approves substitute-pay increase, calendar and pathway policy; clears student BPA trip
Summary
The Marlborough City School Committee approved a raise in substitute rates, a revised 2026–27 calendar, a middle-school pathway exploration policy and an overnight student trip to the Business Professionals of America state conference; donations were also accepted.
At its Feb. 10 meeting, the Marlborough City School Committee approved several administrative and personnel actions presented by district staff and voted to accept multiple donations.
Substitute pay: The committee voted to raise substitute teacher pay to $135 per day and paraeducator/behavior-tech substitute pay to $110 per day after HR Director Patty Brown told the committee the previous hourly equivalency for paras had fallen below minimum wage when shift lengths changed.
Calendar and policy: The committee approved the 2026–27 school calendar with a correction to a professional-development/election-day entry, and it voted to adopt the middle-school pathway exploration policy (submitted to the department of elementary and secondary education and revised per state comments).
Student trip and donations: The committee approved a chaperoned, overnight trip (March 6–8) for three Business Professionals of America students to attend the state leadership conference and accepted several donations, including a $2,500 MEF grant and multiple discretionary and food-assistance gifts.
Votes and procedure: Each motion carried with the committee’s voice vote; no roll-call tallies were read into the record. Committee members raised questions about participation numbers for BPA and the goal of widening substitute pools; HR and teachers said the pay increase aimed to improve coverage.
What’s next: The district finance office will publish the final 2026–27 calendar and return any budget-related questions to the committee at an upcoming budget workshop. HR will implement the new substitute rates.
