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Committee Members Join Principal Searches
Newton School Committee members joined principal search panels for the first time, drawing questions about how the change was announced.
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Coverage of every School Committee meeting — budgets, curriculum, staffing, and policy decisions — with primary-source documents.
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School Committee Approves Nolan's Annual Goals
The Newton School Committee voted 8-0 to approve Superintendent Nolan's annual goals and spent much of its meeting weighing a longer school bus contract to attract electric-bus bidders.
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Committee hears but doesn't rule on teacher hire
Newton's School Committee sat through more than an hour of divided public comment over a new Brown Middle School teacher's hiring before turning to budget and facilities business.
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School Committee Adopts Protect Act, 9-0
Newton School Committee adopted new limits on immigration enforcement in schools and heard sustained public pushback over a controversial teacher hire.
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School Committee Approves Peak School, Education Grant
Newton School Committee authorized the Peak School and approved a state genocide-education grant Thursday.
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Committee approves NTA elementary schedule deal
Newton School Committee approved a two-year elementary schedule deal with teachers. The committee voted 8-1, with one member absent, to ratify a memorandum of agreement with the Newton Teachers Association restructuring the elementary school day.
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Newton Rejects Ward-Underwood School Merger
Newton's School Committee voted 9-0 to build separate replacement schools for Ward and Underwood elementary, rejecting consolidation, and reaffirmed Ward, Underwood, Brown and Newton South as its top four building priorities.
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City Recommends Separate Ward, Underwood Rebuilds
Newton's School Committee heard a recommendation to keep Ward and Underwood elementary schools as separate buildings rather than merge them.
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School Committee Votes to Opt Out of Choice
Newton's School Committee voted to opt out of school choice for 2026-2027 and separately approved a $2 million K-8 math curriculum overhaul.
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School Committee Delays $1.2M Math Curriculum Vote
Newton School Committee delayed a vote on a $1.2 million K-8 math curriculum to May 18.
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