Concord Public Schools

This document presents the Superintendent's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2018 for the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District, outlining its strategic direction and financial plan for the year. It details the district's mission, core values, and specific annual goals focused on academic excellence, personalized learning experiences, student well-being, and continuous improvement in supervision and evaluation. The budget supports key initiatives such as implementing a later school day start time and enhancing programs in Senior Internship, Global Literacy, and Coding Classes, while addressing cost drivers and funding sources.

This document presents the Superintendent and School Committee's FY20 Adopted Budget for the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District. It is guided by the mission to educate all students to be lifelong learners, creative thinkers, caring citizens, and responsible contributors in a global society. The core values of the district include academic excellence, a respectful and empathic community, educational equity, continuous improvement, and professional collaboration. Key budgeting principles prioritize student learning, teaching conditions, alignment with core values, and fiscal responsibility. The budget reflects a zero-based budgeting approach, addressing financial outlook, administrative restructuring, special education services, and other post-employment benefits.

The Concord Middle School Educational Program outlines the vision and detailed requirements for a new middle school facility, focusing on an integrated educational experience for grades six through eight. It aligns with the Concord Public Schools' strategic objectives of fostering multiple paths to student success, ensuring student well-being, cultivating a collaborative and inclusive culture, and creating an innovative physical environment. The program provides specific details across all academic disciplines, academic support, special education, visual and performing arts, physical education, technology instruction, and extracurricular activities. The intended outcome is to unite the school community, implement a team-based instructional approach, and provide flexible, innovative spaces to support a comprehensive educational experience for the next several decades.

The Joint School Committee meeting focused on a facilities assessment presentation for four schools (Alcott Elementary, Thoreau Elementary, Willard Elementary, and Concord Integrated Preschool & Ripley Administrative Offices), outlining repair and replacement needs categorized by urgency. The assessment covered various aspects, including civil engineering, building envelope, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, as well as environmental hazards. Discussion included prioritization of repairs and next steps, with collaboration with the Concord town manager planned. The meeting also included employee recognition, public comments regarding the new middle school name and parent meeting requests, and approval of the consent agenda, including liaison assignments, the interim assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, and the school committee meeting schedule. Finally, the meeting addressed the delegation of food service bidding to district administration.

The Policy Subcommittee meeting agenda includes a review of numerous policies related to salary deductions, expense reimbursements, operations support services goals, safety programs, buildings and grounds inspections, pest management, first aid, emergency plans, emergency closings, buildings and grounds management, security, use of cameras, vandalism, security cameras in schools, operations and maintenance, responsibilities for operation/maintenance of facilities, authorized use of school-owned materials, student transportation services, walkers and riders, school bus safety programs, bus driver training, drug and alcohol testing for school bus and commercial vehicle drivers, school vehicle maintenance responsibilities, student conduct on school buses, no idling policy, student transportation in private vehicles, free and reduced price food services, operation of food services, food services responsibilities, and inventories. Public comments are also included in the agenda.