The Budget Informational Meetings are right around the corner for the Westford School Board, the Union #46 School Board and the Prudential Committee! Westford School Board Informational Meeting: March 5, 7:00 p.m., Westford School Don’t forget to vote! Polls open all day at Westford School on March 6 Need information about the budget?  Click here [...]      Read More

  The Westford School Board has nearly completed the FY 2013 budget process and will conduct two additional public meetings during which community members can ask questions and make suggestions for Board consideration prior to finalization of the 2012-13 school year budget. Tuesday, January 3rd at 6:30pm in the Westford School Commons is the final [...]      Read More

The most recent draft 2012-2013 (FY13) Westford School Budget is now available online.  Click here to view the budget (pdf file).  For other Westford School Board news, visit their web-site, or sign up to receive news/announcements via email.      Read More

David Wells, Principal of Westford Elementary School was presented a “2011 Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance Grant”   in the amount of $500 by Kevin Perry, from the Energy North Group. The Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance program is to support the school’s math and science programs.  Kevin Perry, a Jolley Associates Supervisor in conjunction with the Milton [...]      Read More

The board had their regular board meeting at Essex High School.  The meeting immediately followed the carousel meeting of all the school boards in Chittenden Central Supervisory Union. One item of interest that was discussed at the carousal meeting was the NECAP scores across the various school districts within the Supervisory Union.  In general, the scores [...]      Read More

The Board ratified a new two-year teacher contract with the Essex Junction Westford Education Association (EJWEA).  Representatives from each of the Supervisory Union boards participate as a group to negotiate with teacher for each of their three separate contracts.  The new agreements take effect on July 1, 2011. In general, the economic issues associated with [...]      Read More

The Essex Junction Westford Education Association (EJWEA) and the school boards of the Westford, Essex Junction, and Union #46 school districts, have ratified the terms of successor Master Agreements. These new agreements take effect July 1, 2011 for two-year terms. On economic issues, a 2.7 percent salary increase was agreed upon for each year. In [...]      Read More

The Westford School Board and Selectboard met for a joint meeting on April 12th.  The intent as to brainstorm mutual opportunities for long-range planning around the collective use of our town’s resources.  The meeting included a productive conversation about shared resources and economies of scale.  Some ideas need more work and research.  For example, how [...]      Read More

School Budget Passage: The school board is grateful to all those who took time to come out and vote on Town Meeting Day.  We appreciate the support the school budget received, as well as the two establishing reserve accounts.  The board looks forward to begin work on its Capital Plan to address some critical maintenance [...]      Read More

Chittenden Central Supervisory Union’s (CCSU) three “member” school boards (Westford, Essex Junction, and Essex Union #46) are currently active in collective bargaining efforts with the Essex Junction-Westford Education Association (EJWEA), which represents teachers in CCSU’s three school districts.  The current Collective Bargaining Agreement (often called the “Master Agreement” or “Contract”) expires on June 30, 2011 [...]      Read More

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