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Before Wednesday's Gloucester School Committee: votes on operating protocols and a new special education job description

The committee meets at 6 p.m. in the Gloucester High School library. The superintendent will update the entry plan, and three subcommittees report.

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The Gloucester School Committee plans two votes Wednesday night, according to its agenda: updated School Committee operating protocols, and the job description for an assistant director of special education.

What is on the agenda

  • Superintendent's report, plus an update on the superintendent's entry plan, titled "Technical and Adaptive Change."
  • Program Subcommittee (Sept. 30): the School Committee operating protocols, which come up for a full committee vote.
  • Building and Finance Subcommittee (Oct. 7): student activity accounts, including a new account for GHS theater and drama and fiscal 2026 activity balances; special education costs, including the fiscal 2027 circuit breaker reimbursement, out of district tuition and transportation; an "NEC quarterly update," as the agenda lists it; and budget transfers.
  • Personnel Subcommittee (Oct. 8): updated job descriptions for three individual, nonunion contracts.
  • Consent agenda: minutes from seven earlier meetings, warrants, transfers, donations and gifts.
  • A report from the Gloucester High School Student Advisory Council.

How to take part

The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in the Gloucester High School library, 32 Leslie O. Johnson Road. It is also on Zoom (webinar ID 840 3307 3002) and by phone at 309-205-3325 or 312-626-6799. Residents can speak during oral communications, for up to three minutes each. On the phone, press star 9 to ask to speak; on Zoom, use the raise hand button.

The committee's next regular meetings are Oct. 28 and Nov. 4, both at 6 p.m. in the high school library.

Earlier coverage: Public meetings after the long weekend: Gloucester City Council, Essex selectmen, the Essex school's community meeting (Oct. 10), this week's meeting list.

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