School Committee

WINTHROP — July 13, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee approves $4.88 million in warrants and hears summer operations update. The committee voted July 13 to approve expenditure warrant SVW 26-24 for $615,767.39 and payroll warrant SPW 26-26 for $4,266,446.01, with all roll-call votes

WINTHROP — June 29, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee extends Superintendent Lisa Howard's contract and approves nearly $4.76 million in warrants. The committee voted unanimously Monday to approve the final two years of Howard's contract, setting her salary at $216,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $220,

WINTHROP — June 15, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee approves FY27 budget with $1.22 million in reductions, superintendent warns of potential fall shortfall. The committee voted unanimously Monday to adopt the fiscal year 2027 school budget of $42,558,153, cutting $1.22 million in line items to match the town

WINTHROP — June 1, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee ratifies three-year labor agreements with four employee unions covering nearly 280 district workers. The committee voted unanimously Monday to approve separate memoranda of understanding with the teachers, educational support personnel, secretaries, and nurses bargaining units, capping a multi-unit bargaining round for

WINTHROP — April 27, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee approves a $42.5 million FY27 budget request while union members demand a return to the bargaining table. The committee voted 5-1 on April 27 to approve the $42,518,153 net budget request — up from the current year's $40,

WINTHROP — April 6, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee voted unanimously to opt out of state inter-district school choice for another year and heard a detailed account of last Friday's threatening phone call to the high school. Superintendent Ruggiero told the committee that a secretary answered the call on

WINTHROP — March 23, 2026 — Winthrop schools lose tens of thousands in federal grant money over 3A zoning noncompliance. Superintendent Dylan Mello told the School Committee at its March 23 meeting that the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has added 3A compliance as a required eligibility criterion for multiple

WINTHROP — March 18, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee presents package contract counter-proposals to teachers union in special open session. Meeting at Winthrop High School Library on March 18, the committee offered three alternative salary schedules for teachers and three for educational support professionals, with teacher options ranging from tiered step

WINTHROP — March 4, 2026 — Winthrop's teachers union presented a comprehensive four-year contract settlement package covering all four bargaining units at a March 4 School Committee meeting. The Winthrop Education Association, at its 17th bargaining session since May 2025, proposed annual wage increases ranging from 3 percent for

WINTHROP — February 9, 2026 — Winthrop teachers and educational support professionals flooded a School Committee meeting to demand settlement of a contract now more than 200 days overdue. Dozens of current and former Winthrop Public Schools employees filled the Harvey Kering Room at Town Hall on February 9 to tell the