WORCESTER While it’s not the historically crowded field of two years ago, there will still be a race for School Committee this year, as eight candidates vie for six open seats this election.
After the committee’s longest tenured members, Jack Foley and John Monfredo, bowed out this year, there are four current members running for re-election: Dianna Biancheria, Molly McCullough, Tracy O’Connell Novick and Lauren Clancey. Biancheria is seeking her seventh term, Novick her fifth, McCullough her fourth and Clancey her second.
Challenging that group are Jermoh Kamara, Susan Mailman, Jermaine Johnson and Shanel Soucy.
Kamara was also one of the 13 candidates who ran for School Committee in 2019, when Novick and Clancey ended up as the lone challengers to win seats on the committee.
WORCESTER After hours of debate and years of trying to get to this point the School Committee on Thursday voted to implement a district-wide comprehensive sex education curriculum.
In a 5-2 vote, the full committee approved a prior 2-1 vote by its Standing Committee on Teaching, Learning and Student Supports to go with a model called Rights, Respect, Responsibility.
RRR was one of two curricula put forward by a panel of health educators earlier this year.
Mayor Joseph Petty, the chairman, and members Molly McCullough, Laura Clancey, Tracy O’Connell Novick, and Jack Foley voted for the motion; Dianna Biancheria and John Monfredo were opposed.
UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 11:08 am ET
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Twenty-four candidates for City Council and School Committee had returned signatures as of May 6. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
WORCESTER, MA An important milestone in the 2021 Worcester city election is coming up on with candidates under a Tuesday deadline to submit signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
As of Thursday, two dozen candidates had already submitted enough signatures to get on the ballot, including all but two incumbents and a slew of challengers.
Although many candidates have been campaigning for months, some surprising new contenders have emerged recently.
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Two police officers have gathered enough signatures, including state police Sgt. Gregory Stratman and Worcester police union leader Richard Cipro known for clashing with city officials, and co-administering a Facebook page that often features right-wing memes.
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Worcesteria: John L. Foley not running for re-election to School Committee
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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