Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. also Well, hello everyone and welcome to another exciting night of Super Smash Bros., the competition of the IHSN 25 to 26 playoffs. In round two, we face off against six seed, which is Lakeland High School. Lakeland ended their regular season with eight wins and four losses. Our number three seed, the Cyber Tigers, have only lost one match this year against Ky Valley. I'm your co-host, Jordan Troyer, and joining me today is >> Erica Swanson. >> Oh, yeah. And we're and we're going to be seeing a lot we're going to be seeing a lot of great uh playing tonight, actually. All right. So, why don't we talk about the players for tonight? Our players tonight on the varsity team are Jaden aka Blue J, a Izzy aka the pineapple queen, Kamura aka Bluey. Pogger s Deacon aka Dry Dirt, Eli aka Webbles, and our current starting player, Asher aka Library Boy.
in memory of the following former MCS employees who have passed away. Brenda Spry, former MCS instructional assistant. Larry Graham, former MCS bus driver, and his wife Francis, she was also a former MCS bus driver. Please. Thank you.
Hi everybody. Welcome back to TechSafe episode 64 coming to you from WACA TV in Ashlin, Massachusetts. I want to give a shout out to our producer Paul. Thank you for having me in here today. And my name is CC Ducet. I am the director of Massachusetts for safe technology as well as the project called safer screen time which offers an online course that can be completed in about an hour to teach people what the wireless radiation issue is. So please feel free to go to safer screen time for a good primer. It'll only take you about an hour to complete that online course. I am honored to have with me today a very wonderful guest, Dr. Alexia Mcnite. Dr. Mcnite and her also medical doctor husband are joining us from Pennsylvania. Uh Dr. Mcnite, if you could please say a few words about what your background is and then we'll have your husband introduce himself as well.
Good evening, everybody. It is March 11th, 2026. This is our school committee meeting. We start each meeting by reading our district vision statement. The Ashland Public Schools strives to be a model district that creates a culture of inclusivity for our diverse students and staff who feel safe and supported, are empowered with the academic and social-emotional skills to pursue their chosen path, and embrace their roles as positive contributors to local and global communities. This meeting is being recorded by WACA Cable TV. Our call to order this evening includes opening procedures, agenda review and adoption. We'll have some time for public participation. Uh and first on the agenda, a launch update, Cassia Ashman lead teacher. We will have Pittaway pre-K update, Amanda Curley preschool director, Ashland Middle School engineering students, Caring Kade, a composting prob program proposal from the Pittaway School, warrant approvals, superintendent's report including mid-cycle update superintendent goals, and FY27 budget update.
Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Welcome everyone to class of 2030 admissions lottery. My name is Brenda Richardson and I'm the assistant superintendent at Greater Lawrence Technical School. I want to begin by sharing that this process represents a significant change in how admissions are handled at GLTS. This lottery system is now required by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for all career and technical school districts across the state. At Greater Lawrence Technical School, we serve the vibrant communities of Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover. Because we have received more applications than available seats, we will use a lottery system that prioritizes residents of these four member communities. Today, we will conduct the lottery for the incoming ninth grade class. We will conduct a separate lottery for transfer applicants to grades 10 and 11 sometime this summer. This year, we received 1,316 applications for 500 available seats at GLTS, reflecting the incredible interest in our school and programs.
It is 6:30, so I think we'll go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone for being present in the room. Um, I can hear a little bit of feedback. So, I'm going to go ahead and read the chair's statement. This meeting is being recorded by Greenfield Community Television, GCTV. If any other persons are doing so, uh, doing the same, you must notify the chairperson, me, at this time. Anyone else recording? There we go. All right. Good. Thank you. Um, we'll go ahead and do a call to order. We are called to order at 6:31 p.m. Secretary Webb, would you please call the role? >> Member Goodwin here. >> Chair Ston >> here. >> Secretary Webb, I'm here. Vice Chair Childs >> here. >> Member Dene is not here. Member Or >> here >> is online. Member >> here. >> Sure. >> All right. We have a quorum with um one absence, although we've heard that member Denise should be joining us in a few moments.
Mhm. >> Mhm. >> All right. It is 6:30, so I think we'll go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone for being present in the room. Um I can hear a little bit of feedback. So, I'm going to go ahead and read the chair's statement. This meeting is being recorded by Greenfield Community Television, GCTV. If any other persons are doing so, doing the same, you must notify the chairperson, me, at this time. Anyone else recording? There we go. All right, good. Thank you. We'll go ahead and do call to order. We are called to order at 6:31 p.m.
March. Detail, halt. Arms. Right. Face. March. Halt. Color guard, fall out. Al, can you please do roll call? Kate. No, she's on. Gladys. Here. Here. All right. Dr. Cronin. Lauren. Here. Juanita. Here. Cindy. Here. Sherry. Here. Sean. Minnie. Here. Louisa. Here. And I'm here. Okay, I want to just welcome everybody back again. We missed our last meeting cuz of the snow, but we're back with some nice comfortable weather today. So, I want to welcome back my board members and the everybody from the district again to come back together and with some positive energy and re-energized spring energy to work for our district and our students. So, thank you for all being present today. Um so, tonight before we begin with spotlight your school for South Street Elementary School, I just want to take a moment to recognize our board members during board member appreciation month.
We have quorum and we will be starting with closed session. During close session, we'll be talk having a conference with real property negotiators. Talk about student discipline conference with labor negotiators and public ex public public employee discipline dismissal release complaint. And are there any public comments on close session items? Okay, seeing none, we'll adjourn to close session at 501. Great. Thank you.
Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Hello, good evening. Um I'm sorry. We are um headed into closed session. Um I wanted to call this meeting to order first though. Um so we'll be headed into closed session and then I will report any action that's been taken afterwards. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Good evening. Thank you everybody for coming. Um We are going to call the regular board meeting to order. This meeting is recorded and live streamed. Uh for the last hour we were in closed session, but no action was taken. At this time I'd like everybody to stand for the flag salute. Ready? Begin.
Just wanted to share that with you. I want to give first Miss Aorn. She deserves all the credit. This is for $6,500 for the Apple School's kindness program for resources for positive behavior reinforcement for our school district. So, I just wanted to share this with you members of the board and everyone here in attendance, staff, students, and families. Next, we have a school safety program grant can pull up. Board members, I included this in the attachment. Um, just some highlights for for everyone to hear. This is from the Arizona Department of Education and uh for $60,000. Critical updates to our school safety program. Additional recorded cameras, equipment and mounting hardware, cameras for school buses, uh school office windows, replacement of school office windows with better better equipment. Automated steel sliding delivery gates, north and south gates. Uh solar motion sensor outdoor security lighting units. Also, uh, improvements to our classroom and restroom locks and security camera monitoring screen panels for the school safety team for Mr.
Like I watched the truck in the driveway one day 9,000 gallons. >> You ready? >> Yeah, I'm ready. Let's >> call the meeting to order. We'll uh stand and recite the pledge of allegiance.
I do have some people who think that if somebody gets hurt and it happens on school property that there's some kind of automatic liability standard that applies to the school. I can tell you that is not true. Um it is it is along the lines of a negligence standard which is what we call a reasonable person standard. We have to make sure that we are acting reasonably based upon information that's known or should be known to us that um reasonably provides a safe environment for those who are on school property. So ultimately um people get hurt everywhere in all different kinds of places. That's no different at at schools, but the school's standard of care from a legal perspective if these things make it into court is uh is a reasonable reasonleness standard. So let's talk about this next one. This is a very common one.
Getting right into this. Yep. Due to some technical difficulties, they have already started the match yet. And as you can tell, Asher has already taken has already taken a stock. And basically the reason we're wanting to take the stocks is because these battles tonight are in a 4v4 crew battle format, which is when players from opposing teams take turns fighting 1v one matches with the winner of a match carrying their remaining stocks, which are their lives actually, to face the next member of the opposing team. Coaches must disclose with one another in private the fighter for the first player on each team in the set. And after a player has lost a game, they will be eliminated from that set. And while I was explaining that a member from the enemy team actually managed to take a stock on Asher and build up his and build up Asher's percentage a bit more than we would like.
We'll start off with Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone, please stand. I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> So, as you can tell, we have a lot of people in here today. So, we have a lot of student recognitions. So, we're going to go ahead and start off with Deputy Elementary School State Science Bowl team members, and I'll ask Camille to come up. Hi, I'm Camille Crim and I got to coach Deputy Science Bowl this year. Um, we had seven students participate and when you have one class, that's a lot. So, they did great. They got fourth in the state. We have Jace Eden. Sorry, I'll go faster. Jaden King up here. Marcus Griffin. Kinley Owen. We had Lincoln Scott and I don't think he's here today.
I actually am a veterinary radiologist and I do equin MRI almost exclusively and in um residency we certainly learned about the dangers of ionizing radiation and we did not learn anything about the dangers of nonionizing radiation. I happened to come across that with personal experience which we will discuss I'm sure in a little bit. >> Excellent. and I'm delighted to meet your husband for the first time. Sir, could you please introduce yourself? Tell us what your background is. >> Yeah. So, my name is uh Larry Mcnite. I um am a board-certified um internist um trained at at the Mayo Clinic. Um I currently work in informatics but um u you know during my you know practice in 20 years or so of of uh hospital medicine never really learned about um you know EMF issues at all. Um and got exposure basically through you know experience of of having my wife go through this and initially I was very very skeptical.
Uh the assistant superintendent's report, and then the consent agenda, which has approval of gifts and donation, and minutes from February 25th, 2026. We will have reports of school committee members, and then we will adjourn. So, uh are you all okay with the order of business this evening? And I see that Marcy's here, Paul's here, Mark's here, I'm here, and uh we're waiting for Gina. Um I will ask next if there are any members of the public that would like to give comment this evening. I see some people in line and online, and I don't know if any of you are here to make a comment to the school committee or if you're just here to watch the meeting, but if you're here to make a comment, please raise your hand now. This is the comment period and the only one. Seeing none. Um we will move on to our reports and presentations, the lunch update.
We truly appreciate every family who applied. At this time, I would like to ask our team members to introduce themselves and their roles. >> Hello. My name is Chuck Jackson. I'm principal here at GLTS. >> Hi, I'm Katie Hebert. I'm the director of admissions and counseling and health services at GLTS. And also off camera, we have one of our admissions specialist, Madison Puerto Real. >> Hi, my name is Doreen Lopes and I'm with Go 2 Solutions. We're an independent 30 third party assisting with the lottery today and off screen is Lou Lopes, also with Go 2 Solutions. >> Thank you. >> Before we begin, I will read the governing governing language from our 2025-2026 admissions policy. Students interested in applying to Greater Lawrence School for fall admission to the ninth grade must have completed and submitted an electronic application through the GLTS website under the admissions page or submit a a paper application following the timeline stated below.
Um before we move on to public comment, um I do have an announcement to make um and to read out. It is not a happy one necessarily, but um I hope that you will join me um in taking a moment of silence for Brandon Hoy, who is was a seventh grade student at our middle school who passed away suddenly on Monday morning. He was 14 years old and leaves behind his sister Joanna, his mother Regina, and his father Shawn who are both employees of our district. So we'll observe a minute of silence now. Thank you for joining me in that. Um, and I hope that you will all be sending your condolences in your spirit or in person if you know those that family um for their loss. Um, and it is truly a loss to our whole community. Um, at this time um we will open up to public comment.
Secretary Webb, would you please call the roll? Member Goodwin. Here. Chair Sexton. Here. Secretary Webb, I'm here. Vice Chair Childs. Here. Member Geneve. Is not here. Member Desorgher. Here. Is online. Member Duckman. Here. Here. All right, we have a quorum with one absence, although we've heard that member Geneve should be joining us in a few moments. Um, before we move on to public comment, I do have an announcement to make and to read out. It is not a happy one necessarily, but I hope that you will join me um in taking a moment of silence for Brandon Hoyt, who is was a seventh-grade student at our middle school, who passed away suddenly on Monday morning. He was 14 years old and leaves behind his sister Joanna, his mother Regina, and his father Shawn, who are both employees of our district. So, we will observe a minute of silence now.