By WHAV Staff |
(File photograph.)
The public has opportunities to shape policy this week as various Haverhill boards meet. In the interest of transparency in government, WHAV provides this list of upcoming meetings every week.
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Haverhill School Committee members revisit the matter of in-person learning during a special meeting tomorrow night.
As of now the only agenda item is “Returning Students to the Classroom.” No matter what decision the Committee makes, if past choices are any indication, members have come under fire from different community segments.
School Committee members voted 5-2 Dec. 15 to have students in kindergarten through fifth grade and those identified as high needs to return to hybrid learning next Monday, Jan. 4. They also voted 6-1 to allow basketball and hockey with Mayor James J. Fiorentini as the only no vote. Since then, the Haverhill Education Association’s Action Team and Executive Board
By WHAV Staff |
December 19, 2020
Haverhill School Committee members appear perplexed by gifts of “uncompensated time” delivered by union members last December. (Courtesy photograph.)
This is a developing story.
The union representing teachers and other education-related professionals Friday night voted “no confidence” in the Haverhill School Committee for its 5-2 vote last week to return certain students to the classroom Jan. 4.
Haverhill School Committee member Toni Sapienza-Donais. (Courtesy photograph.)
Haverhill Education Association’s Action Team and Executive Board took the vote during an emergency meeting Friday night. Within hours, nearly 300 members had signed on to the measure and immediately won the backing of School Committee members Toni Sapienza-Donais and Maura L. Ryan-Ciardiello the two that opposed the early return.
By John Lee Grant |
Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta. (WHAV News file photograph.)
The Haverhill School Committee gave mostly high marks to School Superintendent Margaret Marotta at last Thursday night’s regular meeting.
An annual evaluation of the superintendent, required by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, gave the superintendent an average rating of “proficient” or second highest ranking. Mayor James J. Fiorentini began by acknowledging this year was a particularly difficult one that the superintendent handled well.
“I think overall, the superintendent has done an outstanding job and really, what we were thrown into was something that nobody could have ever anticipated, which is crisis management of a crisis that hasn’t happened since 1918. I think the superintendent did a marvelous job and I give her exceptional grades,” the mayor said.