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Board of Education – Sep 9, 2026, 7:00 PM

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What was decided

The board approved two AP curriculum items, AP Statistics and AP Chemistry revisions, and two textbooks. It also approved several policy revisions and rescissions, a consent agenda of personnel and grant items, and tabled two committee appointments. Presentations covered a projected $2.4 million deficit and student assessment results.

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Agenda

The agenda lists policy changes on school safety, crisis management, and suicide prevention. It also covers new AP curriculum, textbook adoption, staff hires, and grant applications.

Show the agenda's 26 items
  • Recognize former staff members Dr. Ann Clark and Robert DeSantis
  • Recognize AP Capstone Scholars
  • Committee reports
  • Chair report
  • Superintendent report: Convocation 'Better Together', first day of school, budget update on financial efficiencies, LAS outcomes assessment report, AP results assessment report
  • Consent agenda: teacher hires, teacher leave of absence requests, teacher resignation, A1, A2, and A3 hires, sixth year salary credit, administrative hire at Greene Hills
  • Consent agenda grants: 2026-27 Alliance District Application, 21st Century Community Learning Centers summer funding, two ReadyCT Robotics grants, CSDE Family Resource Center grant, Primary Mental Health grant, State Adult Education, Peter R. Marsh Grant for BAIMS Music
  • Public comment
  • Pupil Personnel Services report
  • Decision on AP Cybersecurity new curriculum
  • Decision on AP Statistics curriculum revision
  • Decision on AP Chemistry curriculum revision
  • Decision on AP Statistics textbooks (waive second reading)
  • Decision on Media Freedom and Power textbook (waive second reading)
  • Revise Policy 5142 on school safety preparation, response, and after action
  • Rescind Policy 5141.6 on crisis management
  • Rescind Policy 6114 on emergencies and disaster preparedness
  • Rescind Regulation 5131.914
  • Revise Policy 5131.8 on out of school misconduct
  • Revise Policy 5141.5 on suicide prevention and intervention
  • Revise Policy 5141.24 on students and staff with HIV or AIDS
  • Appoint BEHS Roof Committee liaison
  • Appoint Policy Committee member
  • Appoint School Safety Committee member
  • City Council liaison report
  • BOE liaison reports

Meeting details

Where
BOE Auditorium and via Zoom Meeting Platform, 129 Church Street, Bristol, CT 06010
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Terms used here

consent agenda
Routine items, such as minutes and reports, voted on together in one motion without discussion. A member can ask to take any of them up separately.
tabled
Set aside by a vote, to take up later. A tabled item comes back when the board votes to take it off the table.

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About this page

Summary written by AI from the minutes posted by Bristol Public Schools. Checked against the city's PDF. Check the original before relying on it. How summaries are checked

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Minutes posted on the Bristol Public Schools website (PDF, 245 KB). Saved copy, saved .

Summary written by AI from the agenda posted by Bristol Public Schools. Checked against the city's PDF. Check the original before relying on it. How summaries are checked

The full text is in the city's PDF, linked below.

Agenda posted on BoardBook (PDF, 107 KB). Saved copy, saved .

This meeting is listed in more than one place: the same board on the same day, and only one listing gives a time. The listings are shown here as one meeting.

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