Mount Greylock School Committee, select boards to fill vacant seat Tuesday
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When it comes to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging work, that s a community effort, and it starts with the community in the central office and goes to everyone who works in school buildings or around school buildings, Superintendent Jason McCandless said in proposing the calendar. I would suggest to you that if we adopt this calendar, it becomes, in many ways, a template for moving forward with inclusion of half days as professional development time. We need time to reflect, to gather and learn from one another, and we need time to learn from experts, whether joining us in person or virtually, who are helping us become better practitioners all the time.
By a vote of 6-1, the committee OKed a policy for the district developed in consultation with local physicians, the district s union and local boards of health. Speaking as the leader of the district, I m trying to keep my vision focused solely on the big prize, which is threefold: getting students back in, keeping students in and keeping our students, their families, our staff and the community safe, Superintendent Jason McCandless said in presenting the proposal to the committee. McCandless said the policy he drafted was based on language from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Under the new rule, the district will require three things from families who travel outside the commonwealth for more than 24 hours before their children can return to in-person learning: a negative PCR test taken five days or later after returning to Massachusetts; a seven-day quarantine period; and no symptoms of COVID-19.
But first Chair Stephanie Boyd reviewed the steps the board took to gather input and generate consensus around the marijuana issue, which generated angst, confusion and, ultimately, no action at the 2020 annual town meeting. Boyd talked about the feedback the Planning Board received from the Select Board; the Board of Health; the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee; the Zoning Board of Appeals, which ultimately would apply the bylaw in special permit proceedings; and the Agricultural Commission, which last year ended up writing a competing bylaw to that proposed by the Planning Board. Boyd also ran the draft bylaw language past the Williamstown Fire District and the Williamstown Police Department, she said. Neither raised any objections to the language the board has been developing since September.
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