Brookline School Committee Meeting - September 30, 2026

Can I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? Suzanne, so move.

And I vote yes. Consent agenda is approved.

I heard no mention of why Lawrence was not considered by for the cut. And to be clear, I'm sincerely not suggesting we go cut Lawrence instead. In fact, I was surprised to hear no mention of why this cut was necessary gi

subcommittee charged with that, that would be really helpful. Um, and I also think it's very important to understand more of how this happened. Like we've talked about, it shouldn't have happened this way. I think there'

And so I just given what you just said I think what you're saying is that the you the anticipated result will be the adoption of some new curriculum that's out there.

last part of her name. Um she worked with PSP before to transition to a new plan. All right. So a professional development plan should be informed by the strategic plan but there are things that are happening that are go

Okay. Okay. We're now going to um maybe take some action. school committee is gonna perhaps take some votes um on some on stuff from the policy manual and Suzanne is going to be chairing this part of the meeting.

There four items. Um and uh three of them are definitely time urgent, timesensitive. So we actually are going to ask possibly uh that this will be the first reading and then we will vote and I will tell you that the subc

administer a state or federally support funded program, civil arrests, including for federal immigration enforcement are not allowed in the following non-public areas. School grounds during operating hours without a judi

to do it by September one. So I don't think any most districts were not able to meet that deadline but I think they were just establishing a target date for all districts. So um so while it's urgent just for people to un

agreement that if um if if officers showed up on campus that they would call the district offices and police and that district offices would call legal counsel. So, that that was already our practice. Um but we still but

uh sort of Bella when we talked about this at um policy the um our our piece of this is actually rather limited the school committee piece it's yes it's this policy but um what the act requires are for the district to do

asking for uh additional contacts for students and identifying the building leads and and that I'm I'm thinking particularly about the IT um pieces given that we have so many students and figuring out how we're going to

It's great. I'm so grateful that we have a data team. So, it says uh a plan to confirm and update students emergency contacts and allow for more than one person to be listed.

administrator district and town council have all the contact information available. The next part of it is like um communication. Who are you telling in what order? and then communication to um to the school. Yes. And so

actually the the DESIE policy is a very straightforward comprehensive policy in terms of looking at both the um new seclusion rags. Um the restraint regs were not um altered. There was one word changed in the definition.

been prohibited in the state uh since 2014 but it it it had no oversight or accountability and so this was over a period period. Um Desi met with parents and community members and over a period of about 18 months um brou