Springfield School Committee 12/18/2025 Students Reps⎮Regular Meeting

Springfield School Committee · December 19, 2025

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Student speak-out opens meeting

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Mayor Sarno and the school committee opened with a student speak-out featuring multiple middle- and high-school students. Gabriela Torres (Duggan Academy) described enrichments and a positive school climate; several other students (Kobe Ni, Josiah Williams, Honesty Smith, Ileana/Eliana Reyes and others) described academic and extracurricular experiences and asked for expanded opportunities (e.g., middle-school sports, future student-rep consideration).

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The Springfield School Committee held a regularly scheduled meeting that included student "speak out" presentations, adoption of a DESE-aligned Career and Technical Education (CTE) admissions lottery policy, approval of a new middle-school pathway exploration policy, ratification of a security-guard contract, and a district presentation on family engagement initiatives (home visits, enrollment software, translation pilots).

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