Worcesteria: John L. Foley not running for re-election to School Committee
Worcester Magazine
SCHOOL S OUT: Next year, Worcester is looking at having a potentially transformed School Committee. First, longtime committee member John F. Monfredo announced he wasn t running for re-election. Now, John L. Foley confided in a phone conversation that he ll be retiring at the end of his current term,
“I think its time,” said Foley. “It s been a long time I ve served the School Committee. It s time for other people to represent the community. Twenty-two years is a long time.”
While Foley still has most of a year left in his term, the move puts a new spotlight on the School Committee race. Currently, only current members Tracy O Connell Novick, Molly O. McCullough, Laura Clancy and Dianna Biancheria, and newcomers Jermoh Kamara and Sue Mailman have pulled papers. School Committee candidates need 300 signatures to qualify – challenging during a pandemic – and the deadline to