Concord-Carlisle school panel approves bond, superintendent's annual goals
School Committee · Meeting of September 9, 2026
Concord-Carlisle school panel approves $697,173 bond, hears push for cell phone ban. The regional committee unanimously approved the bond anticipation note at 3.75 percent and adopted Superintendent Dr. Hunter's 2026-2027 goals, which lean on universal design for learning to close achievement gaps: recent MCAS data cited by member Michael Williams showed 66 percent of eighth graders proficient in math districtwide versus 22 percent of students with disabilities and 48 percent of low-income students.
Parent Gail Hire told the committee "we need a strict bell to bell phone ban," while Emily Lyons cited a new American Psychological Association report warning that gamified ed-tech "is not evidence of learning." The district plans to launch a paid instructional technology committee and a separate community technology committee in October. Separately, the schools are seeking roughly $500,000 each in Community Preservation Act funding for a Bruce Freeman Rail Trail connector path, estimated at $600,000, and a replacement playground at Alcott Elementary School.
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Source: the School Committee meeting of September 9, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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