Dracut Forum

Well, I was at the town hall for a couple hours last night, you would have thought I would have looked at the bulliten board..
The School Committee met at 6:00 at the High School tonite (not 6:30 at the admin building, as I expected) to vote on their new organization.
Matt Sheehan was voted in unanimously [...]

Brian over at Dracut Politics has been discussing his attempt to get answers to some simple questions out of the school department. I guess if you ask Roger Daigle he could tell you even more stories about what it takes sometimes.
Over at the Town Hall, I find everyone is very forthcoming when it comes to [...]

The Town Clerk has posted the Nov 3 Town Meeting Warrant on the town website.
I notice a couple returns from the spring town meeting, a request to add or increase the fee to tax demands (probably ok, but I hate to add new fees and taxes), the school feasibility study item is there…
But what is [...]

In the Lowell Sun Political column this week, School Committee members Matt Sheehan and MIke Miles point out their reasoning once again on bringing to the town meeting an article limiting the hiring of former school committee members by the school district:
Sheehan and Miles realized that they had the choice to either bring the issue [...]

I know we just had a long School Committee meeting tonite, and I will get back to that.

There was some great discussion on the new alternative education for at-risk youth, as well as some improved Special Education programs.
I did stop by just to quickly ask Matt Sheehan about the proposal he has put in for [...]

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — May Paquette can do it. Dennis “D.J.” Deeb can do it. Joe Campbell, Karen Frederick and Donna Brody can also do it if they wanted to.
However, current members of the School Committee, as well as all future members, will have to wait five years after leaving office before applying [...]