Jackie Doherty News Today

LOWELL — In a metric that should cheer both staff and students alike, only 40 more days of school are left in the 2023-2024 academic year. There are two exceptions to the summer release date of June 18.

LOWELL — Taking a page out of the City Council’s agenda playbook, the new School Committee filed a record 14 motions during its Wednesday night meeting. But first, it voted to approve Superintendent of Schools Liam Skinner’s three-year, $230,000 yearly contract that runs through June 2027.

LOWELL — The outside investigation into allegations of unlawful employment or hiring practices in the Lowell Public Schools ended with an expensive whimper when the report repeatedly did not find by a preponderance of the evidence that there were policy violations.

LOWELL — A 4-3 vote of the School Committee Wednesday night removed the interim from Liam Skinner’s job title to name him the district’s next superintendent of schools.

LOWELL — Ever since he posted the “Coalition Against Tyranny” petition Jan. 11, almost 1,300 people have signed Kendrick Del Orbe’s Change.org petition urging Lowell Public Schools to reconsider its cellphone lockbox policy, which is scheduled to be implemented Jan. 24.

LOWELL — Old and recurring accounting problems opened the new year as Lowell Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Billie Jo Turner presented the newly inaugurated School Committee with an almost 100-page packet of more than $400,000 of so-called bad bills.

The newest term of the Lowell School Committee is underway as the committee’s new lineup was inaugurated Tuesday afternoon in the City Council chambers.

IT WAS a night of fond — and bittersweet — farewells to three members of the Lowell School Committee during its Dec. 6 meeting.

LOWELL – Parents and teachers of students at the Pawtucketville Memorial School heard city and school leaders deplore conditions, including widespread mold, at the building on West Meadow Road. At the Dec. 11 meeting, perhaps the first meeting of its kind, Lowell School Committee members and City Councilors jointly listened to demands to be “told […]

LOWELL — Two new faces — Fred Bahou and Dave Conway — will join the School Committee when the 2024 session opens in January.