The School Committee voted to approve the Superintendent’s recently updated proposed FY2023 budget at its meeting on Tuesday, April 12th. The approved budget is approximately an $8.8 million increase over the FY2022 Budget. After the School Committee sent this resolution on March 31st, 12 members of the Newton City Council…
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Finance Committee The Finance Committee will meet virtually on Monday, April 11th at 7:00 p.m. (Typo in the agenda). Click here to join the Zoom meeting. The agenda includes the following: Request to transfer $50,000 from Elections-Work by Other Depts. to fund the reconfiguration of some of the office space…
Let’s start with the School Committee meetings on the Budget. There were many. After several days of budget presentations – (March 28th, March 30th, March 31st), review, and discussions, all given with the understanding that the schools were faced with a $4 million dollar deficiency, the School Committee sent this…
After the public hearing on the budget at the April 4th School Committee meeting, the SC received a presentation from the Parks, Recreation, and Culture Commissioner regarding proposed lights on the Newton North and Newton South High School fields. Members received this memo from Assistant Superintendent Liam Hurley regarding the…
The Finance Committee and the Programs and Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, April 13th, and possibly, Thursday, April 14th evenings to begin their review of the NPS Budget. This will be the first of the budget reviews conducted by the Council. The Mayor will not present the budget until…
The Ligerbots, is a student-run FIRST FRC robotics team made up of students from both Newton North and Newton South High Schools. The students are given six weeks to design and build a robot that competes with other teams to play a game. Throughout the rest of the year, the…
School Committee members want to know why they are being asked to weigh in on the lights at the high school athletic fields. At the April 4th School Committee meeting (starts around 2:11), the Commissioner of Parks, Recreation, and Culture, provided a presentation on the proposal to install lights at…
Last week, Superintendent David Fleishman informed the school community that he will be stepping down as Superintendent and leaving the Newton Public School system to become the President/Chief Executive Officer of JVS Boston, one of the largest providers of adult education and workforce development services in New England. Fleishman has…
The School Committee members expressed gratitude to the Mayor for the additional $1.5M in ARPA funds, but when it came to a straw vote to show support for the proposed FY23 budget with the restorations that had been discussed that evening, only 4 of the members – Olszewski, Davis, Prenner,…