Can School Board Insert 'All-Day K' Into Next Year's Budget?

The School Committee gets back to the business of trying to finance all-day kindergarten in Barrington for next school year without hurting other programs at its first June meeting tonight.

The meeting starts at 7:30 pm in the School Committee Meeting Room in Town Hall.

The School Committee heard just about everybody at the annual Financial Town Meeting on May 22 call for the start of full-day kindergarten as a significant need in Barrington. Voters just didn’t favor adding another $631,000 to next year’s budget to do it.

The School Committee is on record as well in support of starting all-day kindergarten next year – but only if it can do it without having a negative impact on other programs.

The board voted 3-2 in early May to handle the start of the program in that manner with one of the nay voters, Paula Dominguez, actually favoring all-day kindergarten next year without applying any cash conditions.

Only Scott Fuller voted against starting all-day kindergarten next year; he supports waiting until 2014 – Superintendent Mike Messore’s recommendation.

Here is the complete agenda for tonight’s meeting:

BARRINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING

Government Center, 283 County Road

AGENDA

June 6, 2013

7:30 p.m. 

A.    PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (approx. 7:30 – 7:32 p.m.)

B.     ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITION (approx. 7:32 – 7:35 p.m.)

C.     BPS SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING (approx. 7:35 – 7:55 p.m.)

D.    INFORMATION AND PROPOSALS (approx. 7:55 – 8:20 p.m.)

1.      Instructional Technology 

E.     GENERAL PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION (approx. 8:20 – 8:30 p.m.) 

F.      OLD BUSINESS (approx. 8:30 – 8:55 p.m.)

Superintendent and Staff

1.      Budget Discussion

School Committee

1.      Subcommittee Updates

G.    NEW BUSINESS (approx. 8:55 – 9:05 p.m.)

Superintendent and Staff

1.      Personnel

Request for Leave of Absence

PH, NA, Art

2.      Approval of Request for Home Schooling 

School Committee

1.      Policy First Reading – Technology Resources Responsible Use

H.    DECISION ITEMS (approx. 9:05 – 9:10 p.m.)

1.      Consent Agenda

Meeting Minutes

Open Meeting of May 9, 2013

Financials -- Monthly Expenditures for April $4,076,114.34                                                                                   

I.       DISCUSSION ITEMS (approx. 9:10 – 9:20 p.m.)

1.      Discussion Future Agenda Items

2.      General Discussion to Guide Future Recommendations

J.       GENERAL PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION (approx. 9:20 – 9:30 p.m.) 

The next regular meeting of the Barrington School Committee is scheduled for Thursday, June 20, 2013 at Government Center, 283 County Road, Barrington, RI 02806.