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- About the School Committee
- Vision Statement
- Meetings and Events
- News and Announcements
- School Committee Policy Manual
- Reports, Publications and Approved Minutes
- Meeting Information and Procedures
- Field School Project Committee
- High School Science Facilities Subcommittee
- WEEFC
- Contact Us
Weston School Committee
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The Weston School Committee is a legislative body comprised of five members elected for three-year terms at the Town Election in May, whose primary responsibility is to:
(Click here for most recent Superintendent evaluation, approved 10/15/12)
The School Committee is responsible for setting priorities (through the budget) and for establishing local policy to ensure that the schools are properly run in accordance with state law and regulations. School Committee Annual Report
Current composition of the Weston School Committee is as follows: Term Expires Rick Manley, Chair 2015 Danielle Black 2014 Ed Heller 2016 Sanjay Saini 2016 Rosemary Tomaso 2015
Budget Budget information is available on the Finance and Operations section of this site.
Policy Manual
The Policy Manual underwent a complete revision and was approved iin its entirety in November 2011.
WEEFC The Weston Education Enrichment Fund Committee (WEEFC) is a permanent sub-committee of the School Committee. One member of the School Committee serves on the WEEFC Board. Click here for more additional information regarding WEEFC.
Field School Project
The Field School Project Committee is also a subcommittee of the School Committee.
The High School Science Facility Needs Subcommittee was established in June 2009 to provide recommendation to the School Committee to address the need to improve current cience laboraties and weight room/athletic trainer facility.
Administration
The School Committee hires the Superintendent to oversee the daily operations in the schools with the help of an administrative staff. In order to act on policy matters and to evaluate, in a general sense, the overall functioning of the school system, the Committee asks the administrative staff to do a variety of tasks involving data collection and analyses and to make recommendations where appropriate. The Admnistrative Council consists of the Superintendent of Schools, the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, theAssistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations, the Director of Student Services, the Director of Information Technology and Libraries, and the Principals of each of the five schools.
Student Advisory Council
In addition, Massachusetts law requires that school committees meet at least once every other month during the school year with a student advisory committee, which consists of five members elected by the high school student body. The five members shall, by majority vote, elect from their number a chairperson who will serve for a one-year term. That chairperson also serves as as an ex-officio, non-voting member of the school committee.
Jay Messina has been elected to serve as the student member in 2012-2013.
The meetings of the School Committee and Student Advisory Council (SAC) are open to the public and are all held in the High School Principal's Conference Room from 7:00-7:30 AM. There are no more meetings for 2012-13.
METCO Representative
In addition to the five elected members and student, a non-voting METCO Representative to the School Committee, is elected annually by the Boston/Weston METCO Parents Organization.
Elizabeth Nagarajah and Cheryl Antoine currently serve in an alternating role.
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Cheryl Maloney
Tel: 781-786-5200 Fax: 781-786-5209
89 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493
