Where

BOE Auditorium and via Zoom Meeting Platform, 129 Church Street, Bristol, CT 06010

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What was decided

This site doesn't collect this board's minutes. They may be on the Bristol Public Schools meeting portal (opens in new tab).

Agenda

The agenda covers a 2026-27 budget planning update and bus patrol camera implementation. It also includes bus passes for high schoolers, grants, personnel items, curriculum and policy revisions, and new business.

Agenda items

• School Staff Appreciation Days
• Committee reports
• Student representative reports from Bristol Central High School and Bristol Eastern High School
• Chair report
• Bus patrol (school cameras) implementation update
• Bus passes for high schoolers
• 2026-27 budget planning update
• PSAT/SAT data presentations

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• Attendance and discipline data presentations
• Consent agenda: teacher hires, teacher leave of absence requests, teacher retirements, A1 and A2 hires and resignations, and an administrative resignation effective October 30, 2026
• Consent agenda grants: Federal Adult Education - PEP Comprehensive 2; Prudence Crandall Center - CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV); United Way of Central and Northeastern CT Family Resource Center Operating Funds; Early Start (formerly School Readiness); Mainstreet Community Foundation Jim & Eleanor Frawley Community Fund; The Barnes Foundation Storytelling Residency Program; Connecticut High Dosage Tutoring Program; CT Learner Engagement and Attendance Program (LEAP); McKinney-Vento Homeless Children & Youth Program
• Public comment
• Pupil Personnel Services Report
• Curriculum decision: Latin Historical Prose, new course (presenter Leszek Ward)
• Curriculum decision: Algebra 2 revision (presenter Laura Lanza)
• Curriculum decision: Grade 6-8 Science revision (presenter Laura Lanza)
• Revision: Policy 3231 - Medical Reimbursement for Special Education Students
• Revision: Policy 5114 - Suspension and Expulsion/Due Process
• Revision: Policy 5131.913 - Cyberbullying
• Revision: Policy 4111/4211 - Recruitment and Selection
• Policy 5117 - School Attendance Areas
• Policy 1120 - Public Participation at Board of Education Meetings
• Bylaw 9325 - Meeting Conduct
• Bylaw 9322 - Public and Executive Sessions
• Donation from the BCHS Athletics Activities account to the BCHS Press Box project
• Graduation date for Class of 2027
• First review of proposed school calendars for 2027/2028 and 2028/2029 school years
• First review of proposed 2027 Board of Education meeting dates
• City Council liaison report
• BOE liaison reports

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.

executive session

A part of a public meeting closed to the public. State law allows it only for specific reasons, such as lawsuits, real estate purchases, or personnel matters.

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