The superintendent screening committee will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, February 3rd. Westford's current Superintendent, Bill Olsen, is retiring at the end of 2020-2021, so this leads to a new superintendent that must be chosen. The superintendent search committee was chosen in early December...

On Monday, May 18, the Westford School Committee addressed their plan, on a Zoom call broadcasted by the Westford CAT, for the upcoming school year as well as residents' uncertainties and concerns.  With the school year ending in four weeks, many aspects of the future remain uncertain, especially with...

When Governor Baker announced an extension for all schools in Massachusetts until May 4, showing the continuing effects of the COVID-19 among Westford and its citizens, the Westford School Committee initiated a virtual School Committee meeting on March 30 to continue the conversation surrounding scheduling...

On Monday February 11, a School Committee Meeting was held at Stony Brook Middle School to discuss the concerns surrounding Bill Olsen's contract renewal. Multiple Westford residents, parents, students, and teachers came forward to criticize the board's decision and to voice their reasons for why they...

On Wednesday, January 22, Superintendent Bill Olsen and Director of School Finance Ingrid Nilsson held a meeting with the School Committee to talk about the cost and logistics later start times, and generally concluded that later start times would likely not be feasible during the 2020-2021 school year. This...

On Monday, January 13, the Westford School Committee met to discuss proposed budget cuts in the Latin and English departments, as well as other service reductions. The meeting lasted nearly four hours and featured speakers who would be directly affected by the proposed budget cuts, such as Sarah Bjorkman,...

On Monday, December 16, the Westford School Committee met at the Katie Enos Auditorium in Blanchard Middle School to discuss several budget cuts district-wide, as well as findings from the advisory committee regarding shifting start times for all schools K-12. Differing from the meeting last Wednesday,...

On Saturday, Mar. 23, Westford will be holding its annual Spring Town Meeting from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., where it will be finalizing the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, FY20. The school system is taking a substantial hit, with $1.2 million of budget cuts that puts several school programs on the chopping...

On Monday, September 24th, Westford Academy Principal James Antonelli made a surprise proposal at the Westford School Committee meeting to rename Stony Brook Middle School the 'Everett V. Olsen Middle School' after Westford Public School's Superintendent Everett "Bill" V. Olsen. Antonelli, aside from...

Very few people know about the type of work a member of Congress does and how much time they spend doing it. According to an image acquired by the Huffington Post and used in an article on the Washington Post, a first-time member of Congress should spend about six hours a day fundraising on top of the...

On Friday, March 5th, senior Michael Colavita sent a petition signed by 533 Westford Academy students to members of the Westford Public School Committee protesting their recent unanimous vote to move the One to World program forward at WA. Unlike many student opposition statements which tend to die off,...