District Goals #1 and #2 focus on specific areas of student wellness, achievement, and educational continuity.  At the February 8 Board meeting,  Dr. Pineiro and our content area supervisors  provided an overview of the results of Start Strong assessments administered in Fall 2021.  Start Strong was designed to help districts identify students who may be in need of academic support interventions.  As you will see from Dr. Pineiro's presentation, our district performed well on Start Strong, especially as compared to demographically similar districts and State averages.   And long before Start Strong, our administrators and teachers began identifying and working with students whose learning was particularly affected by the pandemic.  If you have any questions about your child's progress, as always, reach out to his/her teacher directly.

Over the past few months, Business Administrator Dana Sullivan and I met with school principals and department supervisors to begin the challenging work of establishing a school budget for the coming school year.  In particular this year, the increases in expenditures has significantly outpaced the revenues in ways we haven't seen in previous years, undoubtedly impacted by the pandemic. This month and over the next few months leading up to the Board's approval of the final 2022-2023 budget on April 26, we are sharing Budget Previews at each Board of Education meeting to help the school community better understand the history of past budgets and the factors that are considered in developing a budget, while providing a look at the district's projected revenue and expenditures for 2022-2023.