001[Music] w [Music] for [Music] n [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] okay [Music] a [Applause] [Music] St [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] e [Music] w [Music] oh [Music] you morning [Music] in [Music] a [Music] after review see what I'm saying after review and consideration per [Music] in [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] he [Music] good evening and welcome to the regular school committee meeting for Monday March 3rd 2025 the time is 6:34 p.m. uh clerk could you call the role to determine a quorum student representative Kelly St Ford present Mr alme barrows present Miss Babcock present Miss baros present Miss Cornelio present Miss Cristiano present mayor D Maria Mr denafo present Miss Garen present Mr L Monica chairperson Hurley present eight members present eight members present we have a quorum if
002everyone could rise and salute the flag 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 thank you all um just to let everyone know uh Jula Monica reached out and sends his regrets that he could not attend this evening the mayor is at City Hall and the mayor has also sent his regrets that he cannot attend as well uh Mr superintendent the next order of business R numeral three reading of the records for Tuesday February the 25th 2025 make a motion to wave the reading of the records second motion has been made by Miss Babcock seconded by Miss Cornelio to wave the reading of the records from Tuesday February 25th 2025 in place
003on file all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it motion passed Mr superintendent the next order of business Roman numeral four public comment make a motion to open public comment second motion has been made by Miss Barrow seconded by Miss Cornelio to open public comment all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it public comment has opened at 6:36 p.m. currently on our signup sheet we have no speakers I'm just going to extend a invite to anyone in the audience seeing none is there a motion make a motion to close public comment second motion has been made by Miss Babcock seconded by Miss barrows to close public comment all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it public comment is closed at 636 6 p.m.
004Mr superintendent the next order of business Roman numeral 5 report of the student representative Miss St Fort good afternoon everyone spring sports are commencing with an informational meeting Wednesday March 5th winter sports Ended as boy basketball made it to preliminary finals for the 20 2024 to 2025 school year season culinary arts will be serving food at Senator Sal D Dominico's annual St Patrick's dinner this coming Friday and wave Club will be celebrating women's history month this month um future Educators went to umash low this past Friday for a rising educators conference we thank them for having our school where students will be able to learn and share education goals for the future additionally teacher of the year Deshawn Washington gave words on perseverance performance and persistence senior class is holding a fundraiser for Dodge for
005a dodgeball tournament against fa faulty and students Woodson's culinary group is yet to provide great dishes that are doing great at the rate in the World Market it has two students from n CTE pathway doing a co-op during their education periods and for development of the student Advisory Board each student has been assigned to a school and we're looking forward to contacting them a meeting with students this month to ask their opinions on anything they'd like going on in their Community or any change thank you thank you for sorry make a motion to accept the report of the student representative second motion has been made by Miss Babcock seconded by Miss barrows to accept the report of the student rep in place on file all those in favor all those opposed the eyes have it
006motion passed superintendent the next order of business ran numeral six report of the superintendent item number one the superintendent's update uh members of the school committee and our audience uh I have several announcements uh first let me um announce that this coming Wednesday uh March the 5th we will be uh hosting a virtual presentation um know your rights in partnership with the Elliot resource center and the lawyers for civil rights we have the special presentation um for our families to participate remotely I had originally directed our um our director of social emotional learning Dr Wallace to organize an information session for our families and with the help of uh the Family Resource Center uh we have secured the services of an attorney named attorney Richmond who will Who has been a tireless Advocate and expert
007in the field of um immigration law the sessions will be free and open via zoom and the languages that we will offer for translation are Spanish Brazilian Portuguese Haitian Creole um attorney Richmond uh will lead the discussion on topics which will include ice requirements as they relate to Public Schools Fourth Amendment protections legal Frameworks for school districts parental rights temporary child care options and issues related to Temporary protected status um people who choose to participate can go on our ever Public Schools website and click on uh the option for a zoom and that again is um this coming Wednesday beginning at 5:00 and I encourage parents who may still have unanswered questions or would like to have some additional information um to please join that Zoom Zoom um this is one of the steps that
008I've uh taken here at every public schools to ensure that we are thinking about our families over these last several weeks and for many more months to come as um the rules and regulations um promulgated out of Washington would have a direct impact on our families so this is just one more step by vast our department to take um to help our families get good and reliable information so again uh this coming Wednesday it's a virtual session for parents to participate please uh check the ever Public Schools website and click on the link for a five o'clock um program this past week I formally appointed Janet Taylor as the principal of the Lafayette School uh Miss Taylor as many of you know has been the assistant principal at the cavian school since 2019 before that
009she was the assistant principal at the parand school and a first grade teacher um which started her career at in ever at the Webster and kavarian schools Dave Brady as you know has served as principal of the Lafayette school for many years and um Mr Brady had applied for and um was uh appointed as the new title one director as you know one of my commitments was to restore Title One um to support the work of the title one program which is a federal program to support reading across the the district so once um Miss Taylor's replacement has been um selected from a committee that was established at the school for her replacement she'll assume the role as principal full-time of the Lafayette and Mr Brady will then begin his um tenure as our Title
010One director so we wish both of them uh much success in their new Endeavors and I look forward to working with both of them in their new capacities last week uh speaking of Lafayette school our custodian longtime custodian down there Shannon Hendrick was honored at the State House under the black Excellence on the hill celebration which was last Friday in the Great Hall in in Massachusetts um he was uh accompanied by Mr Brady who uh was on hand to congratulate his work um for those of you who know Shannon he's one of our Premier custodians and on his way to work and at home each day he takes pride in the work he does not only inside the building but on his way to and from school does all kinds of uh cleanup along the
011way and even checks the building on weekends on a spare time to be sure that there's nothing in and around the school building that would impede our children's safe return on Mondays great guy a huge asset to our custodial staff and certainly a welcome face at the cavian I was so pleased to nominate him and he was selected by many nominees across the Commonwealth and so we wish um Shannon the best in all that he does for us and and of course his personal life and in the um the news notes that I have left at your your place you'll see a picture of uh him along with our our our principal Mr Brady so congratulations to Shannon Hendrick also congratulations goes out to the Ever High School theater company which Advanced over the weekend
012in the uh Massachusetts educational theater guilds High School drama Festival after finishing in the top four uh this is uh a semi-final round and our students put on a production of the 146 Point Flame which tells the story of the historic 1911 uh factory fire in New York City I got to watch uh their dress rehearsal here at the high school last Thursday a Stella Performance Small cast nine people but uh our kids put their heart and soul into it and it was uh no surprise that they scored so well but in addition our actors themselves received excellence and acting Awards Gina Rodriguez Sanchez for Excell excellence in acting re Rebecca Len Anthony San santiso also received excellence and acting Awards Anna Souza for stage management and assistant directing Jasmine Lopez for excellence and sound
013design Sophia Milo and Isabella vas for excellence and costume design so our kids walked away with plenty of recognition uh this past weekend in Melrose and there on to uh win some more Awards on behalf of uh the city for the the schools and of course their production similarly our percussion Ensemble placs first in New England Scholastic band Association competition this past Saturday so uh Everett was well represented in both theater and in music our our um procession onc comble was Ensemble excuse me was at Dartmouth High School the winter God which also competed finished third third in the same competition uh both groups uh will have many other activities this coming week and weeks ahead and we'll have World Championships which they will be competing in in April in Dayton Ohio as many of
014you know um they continue to compete year after year in Ohio and always do us all very proud so I'd like to also recognize Mr O'Brian who's in the back who really with the help of Marx Cedar and Brian Spencer really do an enormous amount of work preparing our young people to do what they love and what they do best in it shows each and every day so thank you to Mr O'Brien and especially to our young people who um outperform so many people across the district so thank you we also have congratulations to offer our parland School sixth graders and their teachers for an exemplary performance during February's Massachusetts state prodigy math challenge the Palin finished first for the month answering more than 42,000 questions correctly Palin sixth graders accounted for over 30,000 of
015those right answers um Prodigy is a game-based learning platform students practice standards aligned skills in math as they play fun adaptive learning games um The Game's algorithms adjust to each St student's learning Pace um there are also teacher and parent tools to support student learning in the classroom and at home I want to thank uh in particular Carrie Grace one of our pilin teachers for sharing this news with us and supporting our young people as they also compete amongst their peers I mentioned this briefly before but we have an upcoming family biliteracy night our department of English Learners are are hosting another family biliteracy night on Thursday March the 13th from 4: to 5:30 at the cavian school the festivities which uh are always well attended will be free to all of our ever Public
016School young people from grades prek to five for their families as well uh we'll have books to provide them to read and to take home in a multitude of languages and we'll have some activities to engage our families um as we Embark upon the importance of um reading and learning um across um multiple languages and finally The Pride Raising Flag Ceremony um will be held this coming year on June the 2nd beginning at 3:00 and we'll bring note to you again all are invited we'll hold the ceremony outside the front entrance of ever high school and if um there's inclement weather we'll go inside the cafeteria but I'd like to also acknowledge our faculty members Sean Salazar and Mark lent who are the co-advisors of the Everett High School's gender sexuality Alliance and our coordinator
017of libraries Mary pulio for organizing this program once again this year and I also would like to point out that um our member Marone baros has always a part of that um event and help support the work that that committee does here at ever high school and Beyond and um Madam chair members of the committee that's my report what Miss Garen okay thank you madam chair uh through you uh Mr Hart uh just to be clear the know your rights program that's strictly a zoom that's not an iners that's correct we thought that that was more important that uh that people have the comfort of being at home and asking those questions rather than Gathering and does that require any pre-registration or you just click the just click on okay wonderful thank you you're welcome
018Miss BCU um uh I would like to just um two two things one for Mr Hendrick I just want to share that Mr Hendrick kept Amelia in her thing she forgot things constantly and Mr Hendricks would always go beyond for any student to let them into a classroom to get their binder that they forgot he happens to be one of my neighbors as well and the man absolutely not only does he keep our schools clean but he keeps our city clean and he helps out elderly neighbors around us as well um I just am so grateful and I can't think of anybody who deserves this honor better than Mr Hendrick so I was so happy to see this he's such a kind person um I do have one other thing I did notice on your
019your flyer that that uh was on the back of it which was about string night and I happen to notice it and uh I just wanted to mention that string night that there are a few of them do you want to to uh share the details of that because I I think you I'm sure it was on your list uh string KN um we've have that on our website as well for grades 3 to five it's on March the 4th and for grades 6 to 12 it's March the 6th here at Ever High School auditorium beginning at 6:00 and that is um directed by um several of our staff but certainly Mr kasmar uh which many of you know um does a wonderful job with our uh young people across the district and we also
020have uh string night uh AC across the district in various schools from the cavian school right to the mdty English from March the 10th through the 20th and they will be in the cafeteria uh across those schools um in the morning during the day for our family and our students so they will all be information will be also or is also on our website Miss B I just want to say that um I I I love that they're expanding the program like that I think that there are almost 500 students in the violin uh program and um the opportunity for the parents to be able to see them in that small setting for the younger people is is excellent so um I I I encourage people to definitely go out and see the concerts here
021you will be absolutely impressed to see the work of uh our music department and our students thank you if I may from the chair I have one question um about the know your rights um Zoom night you mentioned it's going to be on the website will that also be shared with families on dojo remind and talking points or I believe that's going out tomorrow perfect and social media as well thanks and I'd also like to extend um congratulations to um the theater company percussion and card we are very well represented by our students in the in the district Miss Christiana in while thanking everybody uh I just like to acknowledge uh Mr har that uh I think these two picks two new leaders that we've picked uh Miss Taylor and and Mr Brady moving on
022to become the director of Title One very important both of them very important uh jobs and uh I can't think of anybody better suited really thank you it's nice to see and we do I just so I think I've mentioned this before um I have a I have instituted a search committee for each of our positions which is made up of usually a faculty member a member of the management team it's it's um sometimes it's teachers or students and they ask the same questions of all the candidates that apply that meet the qualifications of the posted position and they work their way up until the kind of the natural top two come to my attention for the kind of final interview and selection so we have a good vetting process and I think it's fair
023to say that um we have very good candidates that apply we have wonderful finalists it's often very difficult to make that final selection but it's no small feat to get to that point where I get to see two great top candidates so thank you for the comments about both of those people are there any further questions for the superintendent update Miss B yes one last question and that about the Evert theater I I know you mentioned that they were moving on do you know what the next steps will be for them uh they have another another uh date I'm not sure that it's set yet I'd have to check on that but will they be doing a performance at the high school as well they have and they've done it for um certain grades at
024the high school have um have gone to see it on this particular production and um so they will go to the next uh the the Statewide I think it's in a couple of weeks but I'm not sure the date okay well we'll keep our eyes have a date on that Dave I don't know if they've given that to us yet it's two Saturday from now which I think is the 15th okay um I it was a c school has not been announced yet last year we were in Brockton I don't know if it's going to be the same this year I think it's location they wait to see how many people would go thank you make a motion to accept the superintendent's update and place on file second motion has been made by Miss Barrow
025seconded by Miss Cornelio to accept the superintendent's report in place on file all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it motion passed Mr superintendent the next order of business item number two I'm requesting your approval to wave rental fees associated with the city of ever's use of Evert high school for its girls day event from 9:00 a.m. to 4: p.m. on Saturday April 12th girls um stands for grit intelligence resilience leadership and strength um through this event the goal is to empower every youth girls from ages 5 to 14 to explore typical male dominated careers as options for them too ever police and fire departments in the Massachusetts State Police are among the city Partners in this event we um get a number of young uh folks to come and I'm
026asking for you to wave the rental fee they will be paying custodial fees associated with the event make a motion to move on favorable action on on the motion yes um i' just like to say uh this is uh just just to touch on this girls day event uh I've been to three of them with uh one of my granddaughters Yan and uh I can't say enough about it Kathy drain at the uh City's diversity officer has put this together and she's got a great team that she works with and I'll tell you there's a lot of the police female police officers uh that participate um and it's just a tremendous program and so uh hats off to Kathy and the team and uh uh I'm hoping I'll be able to attend it again well
027thank you motion has been made by Miss Babcock seconded by Miss Cornelio to accept the approval and wave the rental fee associated with the city of Everett's use of Everett High School for Girls day the girls day event from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday April 12th 2025 all those in favor hi hi all those opposed the eyes have it motion passed uh Mr superintendent the next order of business ran numeral 7 would be items submitted by school committee members there are none Roman numeral 8 is subcommittee reports on uh finance and negotiations for Tuesday February the 25th if I may from the chair the finance and negotiations subcommittee um on Tuesday February 25th 2025 met to um favorably refer The Unit B contract after review and consideration to the body which will be
028voted on next meeting so motion to motion to accept the report of the uh subcommittee second motion has been made and seconded to accept the report of the subcommittee from Tuesday February 25th 2025 we'll do a roll call on that one M Mr alme baros yes Mr Babcock yes Miss baros yes Miss Cornelio yes Miss Cristiano yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes madame chair yes so moved 80 80 motion passed Mr superintendent the next order of business Ral 9 a bills and payroll there are none as you know we um had bills and payrolls reported out at the last meeting which was last Tuesday so we will have a full packet for you at our next regular meeting item 10 unfinished business there is none item 11 Roman numeral 11 uh new business there
029is none Roman numeral 12 hearings there are no hearings Roman numeral 13 matters for executive session item number one to approve executive session minutes for the school committee executive sessions that we conducted on January 11th 2024 January 18th 2024 February 27th 2024 April 1st 2024 May 6 2024 September 3rd 2024 October 21 20 24 November 4th 2024 November 18th 2024 and December 16th 2024 pursuant to Mass General Law chapter 38 section 21A and 1 and section 21A paragraph 3 under the authority granted by Statute to wit Mass General law section 3A section 22 f and g where the chair declares that an open session will continue to have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the committee make a motion to go into executive session and adjourn from there second motion has been made
030and seconded to enter executive session and adjourn in executive session to approve executive session meeting minutes for the school committee executive sessions that were conducted on January 11th 2024 January 18th 2024 February 27th 2024 April 1st 2024 May 6th 2024 September 3rd 2024 October 21st 2024 November 4th 2024 November 18 2024 and December 16th 2024 pursuant to Mass General Law chapter 38 section 21A and 1 Section 21A and 3 under the authority granted by the statute to ITT MH General Law chapter 30A section 202 section 22 f and g where the chair declares that the that an open session will continue to have detrimental effect on the litigating position of the committee long story short we're reviewing executive session minutes roll roll call Mr OK Conor Mr Alita baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros
031yes Miss Cornelio yes Miss Cristiano yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Madam chair yes so moved 80 so moved motion passed before we end the meeting I just want to extend a congratulation to Chris Schweitzer and wife uh Katie for welcoming their daughter Colleen and big brother Ryan is so excited uh uh congratulations thank you everyone we have entered executive session at 7:00 [Music] n e