Boston School Committee Meeting 10-14-2026

We will begin with the approval of minutes. I will now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the September 16th meeting. Is there a motion?

Is there any discussion or objection to the motion?

While the more than $857,000 identified in non-compliant spending represents a small fraction of our 1.635 billion operating budget, falling short of the highest standard of fiscal stewardship is completely unacceptable.

important for me for too many parent to use depend the transportation waiting for transportation for go to to work and when the transportation is delayed is delay the parents the teacher is is big problem because I know

Um thank you, Superintendent. Just um for clarity on the cell phone policy, um the actual policy itself would come before us formally in the new calendar year for a vote. There may be some modifications to the policy in

sometimes they um are having the students just keep it in their backpack and out of sight. Uh, so it really ranges and I think what we want to get to is flexibility for the schools, but also a menu of two or three ways t

So, if there is nothing else, um I'll now entertain a motion to receive the superintendence report. Is there a motion?

Is there any discussion or objection to the motion? Is there any objection to approving the motion by unanimous consent? Hearing none, the superintendent's report is approved.

We'll begin with one report before moving on to public comment. This item will be brought forward for a vote later during the action item portion of the meeting. This report is a tenative collective bargaining agreement

employees paychecks and added to the base salary effectively. Uh he will also explain our request to the Boston City Council for a supplemental appropriation for FY27 of 787,000 approximately. Uh this tenative agreement

adviser, but I was actually um able to participate on the negotiating team for this this collective bargaining or this tenative agreement that I'm presenting tonight. Um we have reached the agreement with our union partn

Uh the financial package um of the 2% plus the $800 that's going to be spread across every paycheck carries a one-year cost of $787,51 for fiscal year uh 27. And that's what we'll be asking for the supplemental appropria

Um I want to thank uh our partners in the city finance team. I want to thank uh the superintendent and thank our union partners um and thank all the school committee members. And we ask that you vote in favor of this ten

So um the city keeps funds for these types of contract um increases in a in a collective bargaining reserve that they keep at the city. We work closely with them. Um, so if you were to approve uh this uh supplemental app

Good evening. My name is Dear Dra Manning. I'm a single parent of two public school children and uh we live in Dorchester. Um there's been quite a bit mentioned about problems with BPS buses over the years. I completely

I need to know the last fiscal year what is the result? How many school use that money for multilingual student? What is the result the the last fiscal year compared this year the money how how how much?

to address gaps through the ways that we share data and talk about data. Um so that that's some of my thinking that I just wanted to share today. Um one is um very much appreciating the focus on proficiency and also real