What does a School Committee do?
What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
School Committees have specific rights and responsibilities according to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
- Reviewing and approving annual school budgets
- Establishing school policies and determining educational goals of the school district
- Acting as the employer in negotiations with the local teachers' union
- Selecting and evaluating the superintendent, as well as overseeing the contracts of certain administrators
Email the Sharon School Committee: sc@sharonschools.net
What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
A great example of this is the new elementary literacy curriculum. Julie led the public-facing effort to do away with the now-discredited Lucy Caulkins program and replace it with something better. After two years of highlighting the failures of Lucy Caulkins in school committee meetings, Julie was then in a position to ask the town to support the purchase of a high-quality literacy curriculum.
School Committee provided direction but was not involved in choosing the actual curriculum. Instead, our expert administrators thoroughly tested and recommended the new CKLA curriculum that is now being implemented in the 2025-26 school year.
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What's an example of Sharon School Committee in action?
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This year, the United States marks its 250th birthday. But local democratic control of public education was a strongly rooted tradition in our country long before it became an independent nation.
In 1647, the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law requiring towns to establish and maintain schools. To know that we are part of a centuries-old tradition of self-government is inspiring.
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