School Committee

Winthrop School Committee approves $4.88 million in warrants and hears summer operations update. The committee voted July 13 to approve expenditure warrant SVW 26-24 for $615,767.39 and payroll warrant SPW 26-26 for $4,266,446.01, with all roll-call votes affirmative and no dissent recorded.

Winthrop School Committee extends Superintendent Lisa Howard's contract and approves nearly $4.76 million in warrants.

Winthrop School Committee approves FY27 budget with $1.22 million in reductions, superintendent warns of potential fall shortfall.

WINTHROP — June 1, 2026 — Winthrop School Committee ratifies three-year labor agreements with four employee unions covering nearly 280 district workers. The committee voted unanimously Monday to approve separate memoranda of understanding with the teachers, educational support personnel, secretaries, and nurses bargaining units, capping a multi-unit bargaining round for

Winthrop School Committee approves a $42.5 million FY27 budget request while union members demand a return to the bargaining table.

Winthrop School Committee voted unanimously to opt out of state inter-district school choice for another year and heard a detailed account of last Friday's threatening phone call to the high school.

WINTHROP — March 23, 2026 — Winthrop schools lose tens of thousands in federal grant money over 3A zoning noncompliance. Superintendent Dylan Mello told the School Committee at its March 23 meeting that the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has added 3A compliance as a required eligibility criterion for multiple

Winthrop School Committee presents package contract counter-proposals to teachers union in special open session.

Winthrop's teachers union presented a comprehensive four-year contract settlement package covering all four bargaining units at a March 4 School Committee meeting.

Winthrop teachers and educational support professionals flooded a School Committee meeting to demand settlement of a contract now more than 200 days overdue.