During a special meeting Wednesday night, the School Committee voted to appoint vice chair Jamie Wronka and member Kyla McSweeney to serve on the interview panel for the director of student services position. Current director Abigail Hanscom is retiring. Her contract...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e306fLaJPrw&list=PL8WekT6kxX1B3xlP6fIr3QmhJButK4GkU&index=1 School Committee chair Nancy Cavanaugh on Thursday announced members would be entering into negotiations with Hopkinton High School Principal Evan Bishop to become the...
Following site visits earlier in the week, the School Committee on Thursday conducted interviews with the two finalists for the superintendent position. The finalists are Evan Bishop, principal at Hopkinton High School, and Mark McLaughlin, superintendent of the South...
The Hopkinton School Committee on Thursday heard about a wall collapse at the Hopkins School addition/renovation project site and revisited cutting $415,000 from its fiscal year 2026 budget. Jeff D’Amico, managing director for Vertex (owner’s project manager) and Rob...
Updates on the Hopkins School and Charleswood School construction projects were among the items on a packed School Committee agenda Thursday. On the Hopkins project, the School Committee approved a $101,404 contract with BCM Controls, a security vendor that will...
The conversation will continue at the Feb. 27 School Committee meeting about how to reduce the fiscal year 2026 school budget by $415,000 as requested by the town manager’s directive. The School Committee previously approved a budget of $67,190,630, and this change...
During a brief Zoom meeting Thursday night, the School Committee voted to sponsor a warrant article for an adaptive playground to be located at Marathon School. With its current wording, the article would ask the town to “vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from...
The School Committee on Thursday approved the competency determination (CD) for high school graduation proposal as presented by Principal Evan Bishop at the last meeting. The board also adopted a fiscal year 2026 budget of $67,190,630, a plan reviewed at four previous...
In November, Massachusetts voted to remove MCAS test results as a requirement for high school graduation. Hopkinton High School Principal Evan Bishop on Thursday appeared before the School Committee to talk about competency determination (CD) going forward to comply...
Another look at the proposed fiscal year 2026 school operating budget was taken by members of the School Committee, Select Board and Appropriation Committee on Thursday. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh and Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Susan...
The Search Committee that will recommend finalists for the superintendent position “does the heavy lift” and is the “absolute engine that moves this process along for you,” David DeRuosi told the School Committee on Jan. 2. DeRuosi is executive director of the New...
https://www.youtube.com/live/1ertJF_-C1w Though it appears Hopkinton is facing a $4.7 million operating budget deficit, Select Board chair Brian Herr said the town is at the very beginning of the process, and any talk about Proposition 2 1/2 overrides is premature and...
At its meeting Thursday, the School Committee selected New England School Development Council as its consultant to help with the new superintendent search. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh is retiring in June 2025. Chair Nancy Cavanaugh noted receipt of three “very...
During budget presentations to the School Committee on Thursday, school principals asked for increases in the substitute account across the board and highlighted personnel and expense requests in other cases. Marathon School Representing Marathon School, Principal...
The School Committee on Thursday discussed plans to search for a new superintendent in the wake of Carol Cavanaugh’s impending retirement in June 2025. Members also addressed possible changes to the school calendar and the process they should undertake to gauge public...
Budget presentations for fiscal year 2026 dominated Thursday night’s School Committee meeting. Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Susan Rothermich introduced the process, showing data from previous years, including ‘actual spending’ numbers and how...
Work on the Hopkins School addition/renovation is on schedule, and the new Charleswood School’s cost is running $1.2 million under budget. On Thursday, Susan Rothermich, assistant superintendent for finance and operations, gave the School Committee an overview of the...
https://www.youtube.com/live/-aVlIucXFPo?si=dRQEpeePwbahmLWq&t=1518 Recent news about Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) results show a decline across the state post-COVID in English/language arts and flat rates in mathematics. In Hopkinton,...
In her superintendent’s report to the School Committee on Thursday, Carol Cavanaugh referred to the Oct. 2 swatting incident at the high school. A false 911 call was made to police, saying a shooter was in the building. The school community was put in “shelter in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsfc9AnbIw0&list=PL8WekT6kxX1B3xlP6fIr3QmhJButK4GkU&index=1 The School Committee looked at the fiscal year 2026 capital plan, approved builder’s risk insurance and talked about goals and improvements during Thursday’s meeting....
