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Attorney Dori Page Antonetti of Shipman & Goodwin explaines recommended changes to the Norwalk Public Schools SGC policy at Tuesday’s Board of Education Policy Committee meeting. NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk School Governance Councils, instituted five years ago as a way to guide individual school development, may be scaled back under the current administration. “The policy really gives a lot of authority to the School Governance Council that’s not provided for in the law,” Attorney Dori Page Antonetti of Shipman & Goodwin said at Tuesday’s Board of Education Policy Committee meeting. ...

Jana Silsby of DLR Group presents a new plan for the Columbus School site at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. A new school is shown in white and the existing building is grey. Connecting the two would allow them to share public spaces. NORWALK, Conn. — A radically different concept for South Norwalk school construction was unveiled Tuesday by Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Alexandra Estrella. This might mean sending a new application to the State by June 30. Two schools would be squeezed onto the 3.5-acre Chestnut Street site, one for Columbus Magnet School and the other a neighbo...

Tuesday’s Norwalk Board of Education meeting on Zoom. NORWALK, Conn. — Surprise capital budget requests got their first public airing Tuesday as the Norwalk Board of Education reviewed its proposed $7 million renovation to the former Briggs High School and a hoped-for $46 million career and technical high school in four or five years. Neither were mentioned last year or sprang from the much-ballyhooed feasibility study five years ago, but former Board Chairman Mike Barbis praised the Briggs plan, while slamming the efforts to build a new Norwalk High School. “Norwalk High School’s tak...

'Reasonable' schools social media policy up for review in Norwalk FacebookTwitterEmail Teacher Paula Fortuna sets up her technology in the classroom at the Center for Global Studies Friday, October 2, 2020, at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Conn.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media NORWALK — The Board of Education will be examining the district’s first expansive social media policy for school staff after a draft was approved by the Policy Committee. On Tuesday night, the BOE’s Policy Committee approved a nine-page social media policy created with Stamford-based legal firm Sh...