Dracut Forum

You know, Sheehan is doing his best, but I think everyone is getting tired of this guy’s hiding from talking to anyone. Radio, press, parents.. the only way you get information from the schools is by forcing it via freedom of information act requests.
From this morning’s Lowell Sun:
Dracut School Department lays off 16 teachers
DRACUT- The [...]

The latest talk around the campfires this weekend was that the figures from the state that came to the town after the conference committee completed its job and the budget was sent on to the Governor to be signed showed another cut of $600,000 to Chapter 70 school aid.
Town Manager Dennis Piendak notified the school [...]

By Keith O’Neil, Sun Correspondent
DRACUT — In a 3-2 vote, the School Committee approved a budget of $26.59 million for fiscal 2010, but some feel the budget is not enough to properly run the school district.
Voting in favor of the budget were Chairman Matthew Sheehan and members Michael Miles and Ronald Mercier. Bonnie Elie [...]

I was talking with School Committee Chairman Matt Sheehan this evening after the school committee meeting.
He made a point that on his way out of the meeting tonite, he was confronted by a teacher from the high school who told him that she had never heard that the teachers had been asked to take a [...]

Tonite’s school committee meeting was highlighted by a long discussion of the proposed budget for the upcoming school year.
Ultimately, the board voted to accept the budget 3 to 2, with the two newest members, Bonnie Elie and Dr Mike McNamara voting against the budget.
The long discussion went very in depth on how Superintendent Mullin was [...]

By Bridget Scrimenti, Lowell Sun
While many Greater Lowell school districts have been forced to lay off hundreds of teachers, some say union concessions could have helped save jobs and eased painful budget cuts.
In Dracut, the teacher’s union refused to renegotiate its recent three-year contract to include a wage freeze for 2010, which would have [...]