Location: Worcester, MA The Worcester School Committee’s Standing Committee on Teaching, Learning and Student Supports will hold its next meeting on a proposed Sex Education curriculum for the Worcester Public Schools on Monday, April 26 at 5:30 pm. The Zoom information for this meeting has not been posted, but you may obtain the link for the meeting by calling the School Committee Office at (508) 799-3032. Proposals for the curriculum contain very explicit and age inappropriate information beginning in Kindergarten. You can see the curriculum for each grade of the available program at: http://3rs.org/3rs-curriculum/3rs-curric-search/. If these matters are of concern to you, please consider watching the meeting and commenting as well as calling Mayor Joseph M. Petty (at 508-799-1153 or mayor@worcesterma.gov), John L. Foley (at 508-335-2307 or JFoley@worcesterschools.net), Molly O. McCullough (at 774-502-8731 or Mcculloughm@worcesterschools.net) , and John F.
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