1. Public Comment (3 Minutes):

2. Student School Committee Report:

3. Presentation of the Records for Approval:

• March 12, 2025, Special Meeting
• March 18, 2025, Regular Meeting
• March 19, 2025, Special Meeting

4. Reconsiderations:
None

5. Unfinished Business/Calendar:
None

6. Awaiting Reports:
None

7. Superintendent’s Agenda:

7a. Superintendent's Update:

An update on pending matters and highlight various initiatives taking place across CPS school communities. 

7b. Presentations:

An update on the pending release of the district's long term facilities condition assessment as well as the developing capital improvement budgeting priorities for FY 26. 

David Murphy, Interim Superintendent 

Damon Smith, Interim Chief Operating Officer

Vedad Konjic, Director of Facilities

7c. CPS District Plan:

None.

7d. Consent Agenda:
#25-059 Recommendation: Fiscal Year 2025 Recommended Budget
#25-060 Recommendation: Approval of the Memorandum of Agreement Between the Cambridge School Committee & Cambridge Education Assocation Regarding Kennedy-Longfelow School Closure
#25-061 Recommendation: Approval of Revisions to Free & Reduced Price Food Services Policy (Second Reading)
#25-062 Recommendation: Approval of Revisions to Tutoring for Pay Policy (Second Reading)
#25-063 Recommendation: Day & Residential Program Services not Available from the Cambridge School Department
#25-064 Recommendation: Contract Award: The Algebra Project: Mathematics Professional Development
#25-065 Recommendation: Contract Award: Ricoh USA, Inc.: Multi-function Printer Leases, Maintanance & Supplies (FY26 Contract)
#25-066 Recommendation: Contract Award: Sterling Business Products: Printing, Promotional & Mailing Services (FY26 Contract)
#25-067 Recommendation: Contract Award: School Specialty: Instructional Materials (FY26 Contract)
#25-068 Recommendation: Contract Award: School Specialty: Classroom Furniture (FY26 Contract)
#25-069 Recommendation: Contract Award: WB Mason: Classroom & Office Furniture (FY26 Contract)
#25-070 Recommendation: Contract Award: Nimbello: Invoice Computer Software (FY26 Contract)
#25-071 Recommendation: Contract Award: Lakeshore Learning: Instructional Materials & Classroom Furniture (FY26 Contract)
#25-072 Recommendation: Contract Award: Research for Better Teaching: Professional Development (FY26 Contract)
#25-073 Recommendation: Approval of Memorandum of Agreement Between The Cambridge School Committee & Cambridge Professional
#25-074 Recommendation: Approval of the SY2025-2026 Cambridge Public Schools District Calendar
#25-075 Recommendation: Gifts/Miscellaneous Receipts
#25-076 Recommendation: Grant Award: FY25 Teacher Diversification (SC25162)
#25-077 Recommendation: Grant Award: FY25 Cambridge Community Foundation/Biogen (FY25159(

8. Non-Consent Agenda:
None

9. School Committee Agenda (Policy Matters/Notifications/Requests for Information):
#25-078: Establishing an Updated Advanced Learning Policy | Joint Motion by Member Weinstein, Member Harding, Member Hunter: Download Attachment
#25-079: Teacher Evaluations and Paraprofessional Staffing | Joint Motion by Member Hudson, Member Harding: Download Attachment
10. Resolutions:
#25-080: CRLS DECA Recognition | Joint Motion by Vice Chair Hunter, Member Harding, Member Hudson: Download Attachment

ORDERED:

WHEREAS:  The School Store, the RSTA School-Based Enterprise at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, was among 13 school-based enterprises in Massachusetts achieving Gold Level Certification for the 2024-2025 school year; and

 WHEREAS:  A school-based enterprise (SBE) is an entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that provides goods and services to meet the needs of the market. SBEs are managed and operated by students as hands-on learning laboratories that integrate National Curriculum Standards in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. SBEs have been an effective educational tool for over four decades, providing students with realistic and practical learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction, enhance 21st Century skill development, and prepare students for college and careers; and

 WHEREAS:  The School Store at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School has operated for 11 years and is to be commended for this achievement. Mrs. Jacqui Cesario is in her 6th year teaching Business Education and running the School Store and her 30th year teaching at CRLS; and

 WHEREAS:  In 2023, Mrs. Cesario and Ms. Jennifer Sloan Green started a DECA Chapter at CRLS as part of the Business Club which sponsors an annual Financial Literacy Fair. This year the DECA Chapter had 8 students compete in the district program and 6 students participated in the SBE certification; and

 WHEREAS:  Christopher Young, CAE, Chief Program Officer at DECA Inc., states “DECA’s School-based Enterprise Certification Program is a rigorous process designed to help DECA members demonstrate their classroom learning in a practical, learning laboratory, and then translate that into meaningful outcomes.”; and

 WHEREAS:  DECA’s school-based Enterprise Certification Program provides recognition for outstanding achievement by school-based enterprises and motivates SBEs to strive for excellence and growth. SBEs can be certified at three levels: bronze, silver or gold. In order to apply for the certification, SBEs must submit extensive documentation that explains how the SBE demonstrates the practice of various marketing and retail standards; now therefore be it

 RESOLVED:  That the following CRLS DECA members are acknowledged and commended for their contributions to the certification application and process: Youseff Adel, Jalyjah Davis, Sebastian Dumoulin, Sophya Gedeon, Sulav Ghimire and Kaleb Woldemeskel; and be it further

 RESOLVED:  That Cambridge Rindge & Latin School DECA will be recognized as an Outstanding School-based Enterprise (SBE) at DECA’s International Career Development Conference this April 26-29, 2025 in Orlando, Florida; and be it further

 RESOLVED:  That the entire Cambridge School Committee congratulates the RSTA CRLS DECA Chapter and advisors Mrs. Jacqui Cesario and Ms. Jennifer Sloan Green, for its Achievement of Gold Level Certification and its recognition at the 2025 National DECA Conference. 

 

11. Announcements:
None

12. Late Orders:
None

13. Communications and Reports from City Officers:

None.