Schools

BARNSTABLE — July 15, 2026 — Barnstable School Committee adopts bell-to-bell cell phone ban and clears seven other policy actions at its July 15 session. The committee voted 4-1 to create policy JICJ-A, prohibiting student use of cell phones and personal electronic devices during the entire school day,

BREWSTER — June 11, 2026 — Brewster School Committee elects new chair and vice chair at annual reorganization, hears enrollment decline warning. The committee unanimously elected Katie Jacobus as chair and Maria Nocte as vice chair at its June 11 reorganization meeting, with Nocte also filling the contract-negotiations seat vacated by

BREWSTER — June 11, 2026 — Brewster School Committee elects new chair and vice chair at annual reorganization, hears enrollment decline warning. The committee unanimously elected Katie Jacobus as chair and Maria Nocte as vice chair at its June 11 reorganization meeting, with Nocte also filling the contract-negotiations seat vacated by

EASTHAM — June 11, 2026 — Eastham School Committee reorganizes, honors retiring principal, and moves policy package toward fall vote. At its June 11 meeting, the five-member committee re-elected Sarah Higgins as chair and Deborah Biedman as vice chair, both by 4-0 votes, and voted 4-0 to accept

EASTHAM — June 9, 2026 — Eastham School Committee re-elects Sara R. Higgins as chair and projects a $77,000 year-end deficit coverable by state aid. At its June 9 annual reorganization meeting, the committee voted unanimously to retain Higgins and elected Debra Raymond vice chair 4-0, replacing outgoing

ORLEANS — June 8, 2026 — Orleans Elementary School Committee reorganized for 2026-27, elected officers, and grappled with unresolved year-end special education funding questions at its June 8 meeting. Superintendent Sandra Roache was unanimously re-elected chair and Kathy McMurray was named vice chair; Ron Collins, the committee's

BOURNE — June 3, 2026 — Bourne School Committee celebrated its annual Navigator Awards at the June 3 meeting, honoring more than a dozen staff members and several students for exemplifying district core values. Superintendent Dr. Joe, presenting alongside Chair Donnell Beals and committee member McCray, noted the ceremony — now in roughly

BARNSTABLE — June 3, 2026 — Barnstable School Committee's June 3 meeting produced no reportable record from the community access TV broadcast. The transcript captured by the station's automatic speech recognition system contains only repeated "Thank you for watching" phrases and no substantive content — no names,

ORLEANS — May 21, 2026 — Nauset Regional School Committee opens multi-year capital assessment dispute to intertown discussions. The committee, meeting May 21 at Nauset Middle School, spent more than an hour debating a discrepancy between its regional agreement and its longstanding budget practice: Section 4, Subsection D of the agreement

ORLEANS — May 18, 2026 — Orleans School Committee honors 30-year veteran chair and closes a special education budget gap with a $138,000 stabilization fund draw. At its May 18 meeting at Orleans Town Hall, the committee paid tribute to outgoing chair Gail Breer, whose service as principal, assistant superintendent,