The School Committee anticipates announcing the three final candidates for Superintendent during the week of February 15, 2010.
Each finalist will spend a day in Newton the following week on February 23rd, 24th and 25th. The schedule for all three days will include:
8:30 - 10:00
School Committee Interview
10:00 - 12:00
School Tours
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch with Interim Superintendent
1:00 - 2:00
Meet with Administration
4:00 - 5:30
Search Committee Interview
7:30 - 9:00
Public Forum, Day Middle School
All are invited to attend the open sessions or tune in on NewTV. Written feedback forms will be available at all sessions and/or comments can be sent to: schoolcommittee@newton.k12.ma.us.
On February 26th, the School Committee will convene in open session at 8:30 am to deliberate and decide on a preferred candidate. This will be followed by a site visit and salary/contract negotiations with the offer finalized at the end of March. If the School Committee is unable to decide on February 26th, a revised process will be developed for moving forward.
To read full Leadership Profile Report, click here.
FY11 Budget Deliberations to Begin March 1:
The Superintendent will present the FY11 Budget on March 1, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Day Middle School.
A preliminary budget discussion is schedule for February 22, 2010 during the regular School Committee meeting. The budget will be deliberated during the month of March. For detailed schedule, click here.
On December 14, 2009 the School Committee voted to approve the FY10 Budget Guidelines. Click here to review the Guidelines.
FY10 School Committee Meetings
The next regular meeting of the School Committee will be Monday, February 8.
Documents of each School Committee meeting are posted by noon on the day of each meeting.
To review agenda of next meeting, click here. To review related documents, click here.
School Committee meetings and re-runs on NewTV:
Newton Governmental Channel City Meetings & programs by or about your elected officials.
Comcast Ch.9, RCN Ch.13, Verizon Ch. 33
The scheduled playback times for meetings are as follows:
Monday-Friday 8am
Tuesday-Friday 12 midnight, 7:30pm
Saturday and Sunday 7:30pm
School
Committee Statement of Purpose
As instruments of the Massachusetts
Legislature, local School Committees derive their authority from the
Constitution of Massachusetts, from statutes, and from the
regulations of the State Board of Education.
The Newton School Committee consists
of nine voting members: one person is elected (citywide) from each
of Newton's eight wards, and the Mayor serves as an ex-officio
member. The School Committee operates in accordance with the MGL Ch.
71 and 41, which delegate its authority. The Education Reform Act of
1993, Ch. 71. S. 37, specifies this authority as follows:
"The School Committee
in each city and town and each regional school district shall
have the power to select and to terminate the Superintendent;
shall review and approve budgets for public education in the
district, and shall establish educational goals and policies
for the schools in the district, consistent with the
requirements of law and state-wide goals and standards
established by the Board of
Education."
The School Committee determines
overall School Department policy and budget. The School Committee
adopts measures to organize itself, conducts public meetings, and
seeks to obtain sufficient funding to support its programs from
available sources at the city, state and federal levels.
School Committee
Newsletter
The School Committee publishes
a regular newsletter.
We welcome and encourage all
citizens of Newton to sign up for this publication.
