ROBERT’S RULES has been referenced so many times of late in both Lowell City Council and School Committee meetings, that it probably should have its own seat at the table.
LOWELL The theme of Wednesday’s regular School Committee meeting was parity in pay for district staff, in something as simple as students being able to go to the bathroom at Lowell High School, and for a mold-free education for students.
LOWELL One Lowell Public Schools superintendent, two city solicitors, three high-level city attorneys, more than a dozen City Council and School Committee meetings and almost $100,000 later, the yearlong and much-hyped outside investigation into allegations of unfair or unlawful hiring practices in the district plods on.
LOWELL Liam Skinner attended his first meeting as the newly appointed interim superintendent of schools during a special session of the School Committee Wednesday night during which the body approved eight modular classrooms for the overcrowded STEM Academy.
LOWELL Pay and parity and intrigue led off Wednesday night’s School Committee meeting. In the end, a savvy negotiating tactic made by United Teachers of Lowell President Paul Georges won a contract for his members that pays all full-time union employees a one-time raise of $2,500 as well as a mid-year 2% increase.